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Aunt Dimity Takes a Holiday
ASIN: 0140296301
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Lori Shepherd can hardly wait to celebrate Christmas this year with her husband, Bill and twin sons in the beautiful cottage willed to her by Aunt Dimity. Then Lori makes a disturbing discovery beneath the cottage's snow-covered lilac bushes--the body of a mysterious stranger, barely alive. Lori must put her plans on hold to team up with Julian Bright--a devilishly attractive Roman Catholic priest--to seek out the tramp's identity. Their adventure takes Lori and Julian from abandoned World War II airfields to homeless shelters--places where the Christmas star shines dimly, if at all. Finally, Lori unveils the tragic secret that led the stranger to her door, and must confront painful truths about herself and the true meaning of a perfect family Christmas.
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Lots of Fun.......2006-11-11
As always, Nancy Atherton delivers a cozy mystery full of life in England. I collect all of her books as they come out, but I don't believe this one was one of her best. It did have a very unusual storyline & ending. I can guarantee it will keep you guessing...
Another great one.......2006-08-23
I love this series. Aunt Dimity's Christmas is a great installment.
Sure, there are a few things that can be a tad annoying. Like Bill (Lori's husband) being too good to be true. He's perfect. He's almost always agreeable and accomodating and does whatever Lori needs, whenever she needs. A little one-dimensional. Same for Bill's father. And sure, in this book, Lori comes off as a bit elitist as she describes being turned off by the homeless people's ratty clothing. She does grow, though, and by the end of the book we realize what lies beneath her revulsion.
But, I overlooked these little things and just enjoyed the book. The mystery itself is pretty interesting and well written and as usual, there is a good sense of suspense that makes you keep reading. And maybe best of all, in the back of the book they give you the recipe for Lori's Angel Cookies. Yum!
If you hate "happily ever after" endings and seemingly perfect characters (except for Lori, who is flawed and the most "real" person in the book), skip this book (and series). But if you just want a fun, light, feel-good book to help you kill a couple of hours on a rainy Saturday afternoon, this is the book (and series) for you.
Aunt Dimity's Christmas.......2005-09-08
Its that wonderful time of year that Lori so enjoys. Christmastime is here and Lori has plans to start so many holiday traditions anew that she remembers from her childhood. All of her hardwork and plans are thrown to the wayside when she discovers a mysterious man passed out in the cold and snow of her front yard. Of course mystery surrounds this man. Who is he? Where did he come from? What was he doing in the remote yard of Lori Shepherd?
While lying in a coma this man teaches Lori some well needed lessons and he affects so many people. We,of course, meet up with Dimity as she too tries to help figure out the identity of this man. A heartwarming cozy mystery great for Christmastime or anytime reading, Aunt Dimity's Christmas lives up to the past books in the series and keeps me wanting more.
Cozy Christmas Mystery Will Delight and Uplift You.......2004-10-21
This is my first entry into the Miss Dimity series and I am resolved to go back and read the entire series in chronological order. I don't normally jump into the middle of things, but I wanted a cozy Christmas mystery, and this one was perfect.
Lori Shepherd Willis is the heroine of this tale. She is looking forward to celebrating the holiday in the manner in which her late and beloved father would have. She is about to embark on a merry whirl of shopping, decorating, and baking his famous angel cookies in preparations for a lavish Christmas Eve party. Her plans all go awry, however, when a handsome stranger is found unconscious in the snow outside her home.
Lori's unexplainable attraction to the stranger coupled with a chance meeting with a Catholic priest lead her on a hunt to discover the story behind the tattered stranger and why he happened to collapse at her cottage. At times reminiscent of a grown-up Nancy Drew, Lori's quest to find the answers is a fun and cozy Christmas read that packs a powerful message about helping others and opening your heart to the true message of Christmas.
From WWII medals to a widow's farm and a London socialite, this book is a pure delight as Lori faces some unpleasant truths about herself and learns to share her blessings. Aunt Dimity, gone but never forgotten, adds her own special wisdom via a most unusual blue journal. Highly recommended for a cold winter's night. Just add a cup of cocoa and a few angel cookies from Lori's recipe which is included in the book.
Initially delightful series now losing its spark.......2004-05-15
I really enjoyed the first couple of Aunt Dimity mysteries, but this one left me feeling that the series is starting to wear a little thin: will Lori perpetually end up lusting after handsome strangers and completely forgetting about the existence of her husband Bill? It strikes a big sour note in the books' otherwise cozy/comforting world. And now she's also forgetting about the existence of their two baby sons for chapter after chapter -- and giving away almost all the boys' Christmas gifts at the end of the book, to boot (it's meant to seem charitable, but to me it seemed more like Joan Crawford/Mommie Dearest). For a protagonist who's intended to be sympathetic and appealing, she's beginning to seem pretty annoying and unsympathetic -- and since these mysteries are fun mainly because everyone in them is so nice and unthreatening, this book isn't as enjoyable as the earlier ones in the series.
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Philip José Farmer, the wildly creative author of the bestselling Riverworld series, here delights his wide readership with a compelling new novel. All the skills and the soaring imagination which have won Farmer over a million dedicated fans are abundant in this highly charged, far-future, space adventure story. The Unreasoning Mask is the story of Ramstan, captain of al-Buraq, a rare model starship. It is capable of alaraf drive: instantaneous travel between two points of space. Three of these special ships were built to explore and make contact with the many sentient races inhabiting the universe. Suddenly, one of the ships mysteriously disappears. And then it is discovered that an unidentifiable "creature" is marauding through the universe, totally annihilating intelligent life on planet after planet. Ranstan, a thoughtful and moral man, becomes a fascinated yet reluctant pawn in the hands of the strange forces which arise to fight the deadly destroyer. Ultimately, he is the one man who, in a fearful race against time, can stop the destruction. But what price must he pay for becoming the savior of intelligent-kind? The Unreasoning Mask is Farmer at his best--fast-paced, complex, slightly mystical, high-action adventure.
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One of the 100 best science fiction novels.......2007-03-06
I've read all of Philip José Farmer's books, and of his stand alone sf novels, this is one of his best. Apparently I'm not alone in thinking this. Interzone editor David Pringle included The Unreasoning Mask in his book, Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels, and sf author Ian Watson called it "a masterpiece, Farmer's finest."
This novel might be viewed as a thinking person's version of Star Trek's "The Doomsday Machine" or "The Immunity Syndrome"; but it's really much more than that, with its metaphysical themes and implications, as well as its well-conceived world building of alien cultures and psychological examination of human motivations.
Captain Ramstan commands a rare alaraf drive starship which allows it to jump instantaneously to distant regions of space. Just as Ramstan sets off an interstellar incident by stealing the god-idol of an alien world (called the glyfa), he is alerted that one of the alaraf ships has disappeared, a victim of a world-killer called a "bolg." What is the mysterious connection between the glyfa and the bolg, and why does Ramstan begin to have waking visions of a mystical being from his long extinguished Muslim faith? Ramstan, chased by the aliens who worship the stolen god, races across the pluriverse to find the answers.
The Unreasoning Mask is a gripping, captivatingly disturbing book. Even at his most fantastic, Farmer manages to entrance with a compelling degree of realism, in particular as regards his portrayal of human nature, which in his fiction seems to carry at least as much bad as it does good. Don't miss this darkly riveting sf adventure.
The uninteresting adventures of a spacefaring lad.......2006-03-30
In the 70s Farmer published a novel as "Kilgore Trout," taking his pseudonym from the beloved science-fiction writer who appears in several Kurt Vonnegut novels. The Trout character is notorious for combining fantastic ideas with an almost pathological inability to write them into compelling stories (and for publishing almost exclusively in pornographic magazines).
After reading "The Unreasoning Mask," I find the irony too rich; it's a book over-flowing with promising ideas, but hampered by grating prose, inconsistent and impatient plotting, and weirdly chauvinistic attitudes. If you pick this up you'll find yourself saying "it can't really be this bad - I must be missing something." You're not. It is.
When reading this book, I was not glad.......2006-03-25
I've read quite a bit of science fiction, and was rather surprised at how disappointing this book was. While the central premise of the book is potentially intriguing, the way the reader learns of it is certainly less than elegant (I won't say what it is so as to not spoil the experience if you dare to read the book yourself). The main character of the book (a starship captain) isn't someone you can bond with, or even care about most of the time, except to wonder how someone so dysfunctional could wind up being in command of an elite ship. The author seemed to have wanted to cover a LOT of territory in a fairly short book, and the result is a book where the plot is disjointed, character development is lacking, and most of the core themes of the book are revealed in essay-like sections, just to get them out there.
Having an interesting idea for a science fiction story is an important start, and 50 years ago that was probably enough to get a book published (keep in mind this book was published in 1981). However, I've come to expect good sci-fi authors to develop the story, have some interesting characters, and draw the reader into the book. You should too.
Disappointingly, surprisingly bad.......2006-03-08
The best that can be said for this book is that there are a lot of interesting ideas in it. Or, rather, there are gestures toward a lot of interesting ideas; there is absolutely no follow-through. One gets the sense of an author with attention deficit disorder: He sat down to his typewriter every day and wrote down the great new idea he had, but never got back to doing anything with the previous day's ideas.
The result is an incoherent book, in which the plot developments seem to just happen, the characters--such as there are any; we really get to know only one--are never developed, and there are several glaring holes in the world-building that are never addressed. By the end, I simply didn't care what happened. I'm not opposed to science fiction that focuses on the ideas at the expense of extensive character development, but for that to work you actually have to, well, focus on the ideas.
Antiquated, and sorta sad.......2006-03-07
This book aims to conceive a new cosmology. That's interesting. Unfortunately, this laudatory ambition is thoroughly and completely undermined by the story--which is that of an unsympathetic, unbelievable protagonist who unhesitatingly follows arbitrary plot shifts through various universes while engaging in clumsy misogyny and trippy thoughts ("Whoa, dude...") and basically just making himself at home in a land of abandoned, unfinished plots and very bad writing.
My, oh my.
When someone says, "I stopped reading science fiction because it had no heart"---this is what they mean.
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This is an excellent bibilography for nuclear & post- nuclear fiction. Works are arranged by author & include a brief synopsis. This book is excllent if you are trying to build your library.
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What happens when a world-class chef--Jean Georges Vongerichten, to be exact--writes a cookbook with a culinary minimalist, the New York Times food columnist Mark Bittman? The answer is Simple to Spectacular, a book that presents more than 250 recipes in a unique way. Here's the drill: a few-ingredient "core" recipe is offered, followed by formulas for four increasingly sophisticated (though not necessarily more taxing) variations. Chicken Breasts in Foil with Rosemary and Olive Oil, for example, yields to recipes for the breasts with tomatoes, olives, and Parmesan; with mushrooms, shallots, and sherry; Thai style; and, finally, with foie gras and porcini mushroom. In hands other than the authors', the dishes could be banal or overwrought. Vongerichten and Bittman triumph, however, presenting richly imagined yet straightforward fare whose preparation almost all cooks can manage.
Dish categories range from soups, salads, and entrees to seasonings, sauces, and desserts. In a number of cases, a particular ingredient, such as pasta, or a technique, such as vegetable roasting, is explored (the authors offer recipes for making plain pasta flavored with curry, for example). The sauce section is particularly useful and provides interesting theme-and-variation recipes for vinaigrettes and mayonnaises. Desserts, including Roasted Almond Ice Cream, Butter-Poached Pears with Praline, and Chocolate Tart in a Chocolate Crust, should please all sweet lovers. With 80 color photos, useful tips, and notes on food and equipment, Simple to Spectacular offers an original premise that will stimulate thought as well as great cooking. --Arthur Boehm
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What happens when a four-star chef and a culinary minimalist decide to join forces to create something different? They invent a new style that adapts to every occasion and every level of cooking expertise.
Simple to Spectacular introduces a unique concept developed by one of the world's top chefs, Jean-Georges Vongerichten, and Mark Bittman, author of How to Cook Everything and the New York Times's hugely popular column "The Minimalist." Ever since their award-winning collaboration on Jean-Georges: Cooking at Home with a Four-Star Chef, the acclaimed duo has been cooking up a repertoire of new dishes that can be prepared in any of five progressively sophisticated ways.
Simple to Spectacular features a total of 250 recipes in 50 groups. Each group begins with a simple, elegant recipe--a few ingredients combined for maximum effect--followed by fully detailed, increasingly elaborate variations. For example, a recipe for Grilled Shrimp with Thyme and Lemon leads to Grilled Shrimp and Zucchini on Rosemary Skewers, Grilled Shrimp with Apple Ketchup, Thai-style Grilled Shrimp on Lemongrass Skewers, and Grilled Shrimp Balls with Cucumber and Yogurt.
Every aspect of the meal is covered, from superb soups and salads to unforgettable side dishes, entrees, and desserts. In
Simple to Spectacular, everything--from the basics to innovations by a four-star chef--is tailored for a quick Tuesday night dinner or an elegant weekend party. And in the now-classic Vongerichten-Bittman style, all of the recipes can be made in the kitchen of any home cook. With 80 full-color photographs giving a mouthwatering view of the Simple-to-Spectacular transformations, readers and cooks will eagerly explore the possibilities.Jean-Georges Vongerichten (right) won the 1998 James Beard Award for Outstanding Chef and Best New Restaurant. His Manhattan restaurants include Vong, Jo Jo, The Mercer Kitchen, and Jean Georges, which earned a rare four-star rating from the New York Times.
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Simple to Spectacular, two titans of the food world have created a truly groundbreaking cookbook. Here are 250 superb recipes arranged in a uniquely useful way: a basic recipe and four increasingly sophisticated variations, with each group (there are 50 groups in all) based on a given technique. This ingenious organization enables cooks of all levels of expertise to understand how a recipe is created and to re-create the brilliantly simple recipes and dazzling variations from one of our best food writers and home cooks teamed with one of America's greatest chefs.
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Want to be popular? Entertain with recipes from this book........2006-09-03
Buy this book. I try to cook at least one item a week out of it, and sometimes several. Tonight I had the basic roasted chicken and the mustard and shallot potatoes with a side of lemon-garlic satueed spinach.
The recipes are relatively easy, quick considering the end result,help sharpen your technical skills as well as build your creativity.
I would also recommend Michael Robert's Secret Ingredients. These two books will make people rave about your food.
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Simple to Spectacular.......2005-08-26
Great book
The recipe's are extremely well written for a cookbook and the technical abilities of the chef are well represented.
if you are looking for a picture book though this is not for you as there are none.
this book leaves it all to you to decide how it is presented.
Gourmet cuisine made simple!!!!.......2005-08-13
I loved this book, its "going from simple to sophisticated in one same recipe" format is amazing, really enabling you to practise with different levels of difficulty. It also gives room for improvisation and uses ingredients readily available in any supermarket. It is worth it alone just for Jean George's technique for cooking eggs, a total revelation!!! Don't miss it! The recipe on the cover is his most famous in his restaurant in New York. So if you don't have a trip planned soon, DO TRY IT AT HOME, it is amazingly simple and renders spectacular results. Your guests will be amazed. The only downside is, you will never want to eat eggs the old way again!!
Excellent Master Class on Everyday Dishes. Buy it!.......2005-05-24
`Simple to Spectacular' is the second of two collaborations by the dynamic duo of chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten and New York Times columnist and cookbook writer, Mark Bittman. The first, `Cooking at Home with chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten' is very good. This book is even better. To my seven (7) categories of modern cookbooks, I would add an eighth category for this and a select few other books such as Tom Colicchio's `How to Think Like a Chef', Paul Bertolli's `Cooking by Hand', and `Jeremiah Tower Cooks'. These are all `master class' texts on cooking techniques. If cooking is not your hobby or you are not a professional cook, your money would probably be much better spend on one of the `big' cookbooks such as the `Joy of Cooking' or on books by one of the fast cooking gurus such as Rachael Ray.
I have often thought that learning cooking is a lot like learning chess. There are lots of general strategies and tips, but you really cannot master the game until you actually play lots of games and see how the strategies play out in many different situations. One of the cleverest techniques for teaching chess is the method of playing through successively more difficult games in which the same rule(s) are applied with increasing sophistication. This book promises to do exactly the same thing with cooking, per its subtitle, `How to Take One Basic Recipe to Four Levels of Sophistication'.
One of the very few disappointments in this book is that it doesn't really follow this agenda. For each recipe title, it certainly begins with a very simple example and at least one of the later recipes certainly is more complicated with more expensive ingredients, but in practically no cases is there a clearly defined progression where the later recipe simply adds either ingredients or techniques to the earlier, simpler recipe. But this is simply not a big thing, as recipes, like chess game paradigms, simply do not evolve linearly. Another inconsequential deviation from the advertised plan is that there are often more than four variations on the same recipe and sometimes as many as six.
One of the unadvertised virtues of this book is that many of the most basic preparations are amazingly simple, and this is from a very important French influenced chef. Two of my favorite examples are the recipes for quick chicken stock and the `Best scrambled eggs' recipe.
I concede that many expert chefs, including those who teach other chefs recommend very long simmer times for their chicken stocks. In this book, Vongerichten and Bittman are recommending a single hour's cooking, using easily acquired chicken legs and just a few common vegetables, with practically no knife work. I am certain that a stock simmered for 12 hours may have some virtues that a one hour stock does not have, especially in the amount of gelatin picked up from the connective tissues, but you got to love this express recipe.
Similarly, some people such as James Beard have given us recipes for scrambled eggs done in double boilers which, according to our authors, can take up to 40 minutes to complete. Now, having done Beard's recipe myself, I know his method is less prone to error and is probably great if you are cooking for a dozen people, but the Vongerichten/Bittman recipe will have your pillowy soft scrambled eggs on the table in 10 minutes flat. If you never quite understood the difference between scrambled eggs and omelets, this book is worth its price for these recipes alone. After the plain eggs comes a recipe for eggs with tomato and basil, eggs with cream cheese, smoked salmon and sorrel, eggs with crispy potatoes and prosciutto, and eggs with caviar.
In addition to the section on `Eggs, Crepes, and Savory Tarts', there is are chapters on:
Soups, with variations on squash soup and gazpacho.
Salads, with variations on Frisee and Mesclun salads.
Pasta, Noodles, and Rice with variations on fresh pasta, cannelloni, sauces, spaetzle and sticky rice.
Vegetables, with variations on stuffed tomatoes, mashed potatoes, sautéed veggies, and tomato confit.
Seafood, with halibut, slow cooked salmon, red snapper, beurre noisette, raw tuna, shrimp, and poached lobster.
Poultry, with roast chicken and sautéed chicken.
Meat, with steak dishes, braised ribs, veal stew, roasted pork, venison and rabbit
Seasonings and sauces, which is simply the typical chapter on pantry preparations.
Desserts, with sorbet, ice cream, crème brulee, poached pears, and tarts.
Except for the recipes of rabbit and venison and the occasional caviar and foie gras, virtually all of these recipes are for dishes which are popular today and which the casual Food Network / Public Television / Today Show TV chef audience would be more than happy to try and wish to learn how to do better and with more variations. Some may argue that spaetzle is just a little obscure, but it happens to be very similar to gnocchi, and even easier to make, as long as you have the right kind of collander or spaetzle maker.
I have heard Ina Garten and some others say that all you really need are to know about a dozen recipes well. I disagree with this number. If I repeat any dish more than once a month or even repeat an ingredient (other than for breakfast) more than once a week, I get complaints. The only dinner exceptions to this rule are for corn and tomatoes when they are in season locally. Therefore, this book is a really great source of recipes that are easy, popular, and highly adaptable.
While I am not a professional dietitian or nutritionist, my sense is that the recipes are also extraordinarily healthy. A perfect example is the egg, smoked salmon, and cream cheese recipe used to replace the high carb, high calorie bagel, lox, and cream cheese.
This book is easily among my top five favorite cookbooks for foodies.
Good ideas for beginners and more advanced cooks.......2004-07-12
I cook a fair bit (many different cuisines). I am on the lookout for simple, tasty recipes ---I have two kids 2 and 5, so I no longer have time to try the fancier recipes of this book.
However, the simpler recipes alone are worth the price of the book. They give some insight into how a famous chef might cook for himself when pressed for time. For example, I've baked salmon hundreds of times over the years but the recipe in this book (the one with crushed capers) has enough minor twists I would never dream of myself---cooking at 350 degrees, with the skin side up, for example--- that lead to much better flavor.
The chicken with sherry vinegar is another example---credited to famous chef Paul Bocuse, but requires only half an hour, and uses no fancy ingredients. Several subtle touches lift it from the ordinary and show that chicken can sometimes be the best of all meats. All my family members, including the 2 year old, wiped their plates clean by soaking up the juices with bread!
The frenchtoast with bananas is another good and quick recipe.
To sum up, this is not an encyclopedic cookbook. It shows you how to do a few things well. It was a useful addition to my kitchen shelf. It might also be a good first cookbook for the starter cook who desires a few top-class results with minimal effort.
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Too much fluff.......2007-05-12
I was looking for a book that would tell me the car and training, and although this book did have some, it was not to the extent I was looking for. I had read previous reviews saying what a great book this was for new Pap owners, but being a new Pap owner, it still gave way too much extranious information and even I knew some of it was incorrect just from talking to the few breeders I had talked to.
Review of Complete book of Papillon.......2007-01-29
basically the book covers the breed type, and covered all I wanted to know about the breed. The one thing is that there is too much of old breed lines which would not be of use to one outside the UK
A must for papillon lovers.......2002-03-20
Very detailed and lots of pics
Top Quality.......2001-04-20
This book has everything you need to know before you buy a Papillon.It helps you deicide whether you want a male or female or a papillon or phalene.It helps you learn how to keep your Papillon healthy and how to groom them.Now I feel I'm ready to own my Papillon,I know their diet (which is kind of unusual,another reason to get this book)and how to choose a healthy puppy.I recomend this book to people who are planning or already have a papillon,it will certainly make you happier knowing that your papillon is happy living with you.It is really worth it,it really is!....
I am buying a second copy........2001-02-20
There are really very few current books on Papillons. I originally bought a copy of this book for my mother in England. She has a papillon and has found the book very useful. I am now about to buy a copy for myself. The authors are well established breeders and judges of papillons in the UK. They cover everything from grooming and care of a papillon to the history of the breed and even papillon collectables. The illustrations are good. The survey of the chief Papillon bloodlines in the UK and USA is not comprehensive (but if it was the book would have been far less easy to read). There is a singular lack of the generic dog information that marrs many other breed handbooks. I would recommend this book to anyone who is interested in papillons. It would be a good book for someone who is thinking of buying/adopting a papillon to read before deciding if this is the right dog for him/her.
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These delightful little canines average less than 10 pounds and are called papillion because of their large wing-like ears. They accommodate well to apartment living and are good with older children. Provides pet owners with basic information on keeping healthy, contented, well-cared-for animals. Facts and advice cover all aspects of pet care, which include proper feeding, housing, health care, grooming, training, and much more. The text in each manual is supplemented with many vivid, full-color photos, and with instructive, anatomically accurate line art.
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Good Service.......2007-01-16
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papillions(complete pet owners manual).......2006-11-05
having never even heard of the breed this book helped me out alot when I decided to buy a Papillion puppy. I would recommend this to anyone thinking about buying a Papillion.
Papillons - Complete Owners Manual.......2006-07-16
Good value containing a range of relevant general information for maintaining your papillon in good condition throughout it's lifetime. Health comments regarding teeth, patella, false pregnancy relate pretty well to what I've seen. Back pain/spasm is also a problem.
Excellent Introduction to a Wonderful Breed.......2004-07-22
Most people have only seen Papillons on television dog shows and never in person, a true shame as these little dogs are among the cutest and most wonderful of breeds. Although this book doesn't come with one of the furry-eared little pups, it is a great introduction to the breed.
The book covers the Papillon breed itself, giving a short history and breed standards, then goes on to discuss what to expect in a pet, delves into care and touches on grooming and showing, peppered throughout with color photos. Yes, the dearth of printed Papillon literature in the US does mean that this book is the choice by default for many wishing to learn more about Papillons, and some of its information is both dated or at times erroneous, but overall, it's a good introduction to those hoping to learn more about one of the cutest and most endearing breeds of toy dogs out there.
it was okay..........2003-11-26
I found more information on papillions, specifically-online! I found most of the information to be general as opposed to specific about the papillion breed. I recently brought home my papillion puppy, three weeks ago and I am not impressed. It is definately not a "complete pet owners manual".
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Gene Florence, the foremost authority on glassware, has produced a brand new guide for collectors. Florence's Kitchen Glass Shakers, 1930 - 1950s, is sure to spice up your bookshelf. Over 1,000 glass kitchen shakers, including sugar shakers, are pictured in this volume of full-color group photographs. Catalog identification of previously unknown shaker names is provided, as well as name, company, and value given for each item shown. Companies featured include Hazel Atlas, Anchor Hocking, Jeannette, McKee, Owens-Illinois, and Tipp City Decorations. This book features sharp images and offers insight into values of these savory shakers. It's another bound-to-be best-seller from glassware expert Gene Florence. 2004 values. AUTHORBIO: A collector since childhood, Gene Florence's hobby of buying and selling glassware turned into a full-time career. First writing a book on Depression Glass, Florence has gone on to author many popular glassware titles including books on Depression Glass; Occupied Japan Collectibles; Kitchen Glassware; Very Rare Glassware; 40s, 50s, 60s Glassware;Elegant Glassware; Stemware; Glassware Pattern Identification; Anchor Hocking's Fire-King; Glass Candlesticks; and Salt Pepper Shakers. AUTHORBIO: Cathy Florence, graduated with honors and a coveted voice award from high school, attended Georgetown College where she obtained a French major and an English minor, then married her middle-school sweetheart Gene Florence. In the mid-80s she authored a book on collecting quilts, harking back to skills taught her by her grandmothers; and she has since co-authored many books on glass with husband Gene. REVIEW: This book is useful for those who know little about shakers as well as those who are diehard collectors. It is organized by company, shapes, and patterns. Large, full-color photographs are presented, with current collector values given for every shaker shown.
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Discover an astounding array of unique motifs to applique in this one-of-a-kind block collection! These beautiful designs are inspired by delft ceramic tiles, a Dutch craft dating back to the seventeenth century.
• Find directions for the full-size quilt, a smaller quilt, and 196 block patterns
• Use the vast block library to mix, match, and make original designs
• The reverse-applique technique is perfect for the small shapes in these 4" blocks
Customer Reviews:
A must have for anyone who loves applique!.......2004-07-04
This is a wonderful book for any quilter that loves applique or would like to learn the art of hand work! The instructions are very easy to follow and the patterns are fantastic! Anyone who purchases this book will find themselves addicted to these little blocks! Don't let the 4" size scare you off.....the blocks can be resized to suit your comfort zone.
A treat to applique these Duthch Treat Patterns.......2004-07-04
The entire book is beautiful! The instructions are easy to understand and the blocks come out easily. This quilt can be done in other colors and it also shows how to make smaller quilts. It is truely a great buy.
Love the Designs and good instructions!.......2004-07-03
I once thought I hated applique - but after trying the newer techniques I love to applique. The designs in this book are a treasure and varied. You can use your favorite colors and easily do it your way. i can see a future of a great number of varied Dutch Treat quilts being made. there is even a Email group of quilters doing these blocks.
Wonderful book!.......2004-07-03
This is definitely a must-have for Appliquéers in the quilting world. Judy has given great instructions for recessed (reverse) appliqué with clear and concise pictures to go by. The little blocks are wonderful. Some of the blocks can be a challenge but oh so rewarding when finished. You won't regret purchasing this book.
A must have for quilters.......2004-07-03
This is a great book. I love all the designs. It is a must have for quilters who like recessed (reverse) applique and love to do hand work. I have not done much recessed applique and Judy's instructions are great and easy to follow. Don't let the 4 inch blocks scare you away!
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Create a delightful floral sampler quilt with the award-winning team of Piece O' Cake Designs. Twelve blocks feature a cluster of flowers blooming from twinkling center stars. Patterns for each block are included in two different sizes, so you can make a full-size quilt or create a little wall quilt from your choice of smaller blocks. You'll also find photos of each block in a full-color gallery. Includes:
• Patterns for 12 lively floral blocks in large and small sizes
• Full-color, closeup photographs of each block
• Special tips from the pros on easy, impeccable appliqué
• Advice on preparing, cutting, and auditioning appliqué fabrics
Customer Reviews:
Easy to follow.......2000-06-22
They keep this book simple and to the point. They cover what you need to create two different quilts shown in the book. The directions are easy to follow and they have the patterns in the book for you to cut or copy and use. I highly recommend this book for someone interested in trying applique.
Customer Reviews:
Striking Fabric Art.......1999-07-22
Janet Bolton's needleskills are showcased in this lovely book. She has a unique style and generously shares advice on technique and sources of inspiration for creating your own images. Her choice of fabrics and beautiful composition takes this medium to a sophisticated level. Bolton shows pictorial as well as more abstract work. I find myself coming back to this book again and again.
Fun country designs, but..........1999-06-11
This is one of the few recent quilt books that have disappointed me. The photos might have been a delightful feature in a magazine, but they don't adapt well as a how-to book with patterns. The designs have such a strong voice, that you'll have the author's personality in the quilt, and not yours, if you make one of these designs.
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Bembaland Church: Religious and Social Change in South Central Africa, 1891-1964 (Studies of Religion in Africa, No 8)
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Manufacturer: Brill Academic Publishers
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Roman Catholic missionaries entered the territory of Bemba-speakers in Central Africa in 1891. Seventy years later the Church in Bembaland was about to enter a new phase as an independent religious community within a newly established African nation. This book traces the stages of church growth from its pioneering introduction to a traditional agricultural polity, through periods of disturbing economic and social change, to the later challenges from autochthonous Christian foundations originating in both the Catholic and Protestant traditions.
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On the theme of "the Doppelganger," Cabinet collaborates with Kabinet, a Russian journal of art and cultural theory based in Saint Petersburg. The collaborative themed section includes a comparison of American astronauts and Soviet cosmonauts; Josiah McElheny on the cultural history of glass mirrors; Joseph Grigley on what trout fishing teaches us about mimetic theories of representation; and an interview with Viktor Sukhodrev, who was, for 30 years, the top diplomatic translator in the Soviet Union, present in conversations between Khruschev and JFK, Carter and Brezhnev, etc. Also in this issue, Shelley Jackson's "fold-in" essay on conjoined twins, Luc Sante on sepia and nostalgia, and artist's projects by Craig Kalpakjian, Luis Miguel Suro & Mario Torres, Josiah McElheny and more.
Customer Reviews:
Infamous "Doppelganger" Issue with guest editor (and twin) John Strausbaugh.......2007-10-08
The theme is "the Doppelganger" and the guest editor (a twin himself) is american cultural critic, John Strausbaugh. While Cabinet is always a fine publication, Strausbaugh's innovative contributions make this double issue a collectible (and great fun)! In this unique issue, Cabinet collaborates with Kabinet, a Russian art journal based in Saint Petersburg. American astronauts are compared to Soviet cosmonauts, and there is a "fold-in" essay on cojoined twins.
Customer Reviews:
Excellent.......1999-05-15
I work at a Cherokee historic site and I highly recommend this book. It reads like a novel and is gripping! By far the most in-depth, unbiased work written on the "Trail of Tears". If you buy no other Cherokee history book, buy this one!
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