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Marine biologist and former secret operative Doc Ford is lazily poling his skiff along Southwest Florida's flat copper sea in search of sea anemones, when he runs into the body of the most hated man on Sanibel Island-Marvin Rios.And when the Island's simplest and sweetest resident is arrested for the murder Doc heads straight into the heart of the sunshine state's dark side-to save his friend from being framed, and to save Sanibel Island from a rising tide of land-grab schemes, blood money and violence.
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The Heat Islands: A Doc Ford Novel.......2006-11-04
I love the character who is much more than he appears to be. Very smooth reading, captures your attention with twists and turns, and for me a very exciting end.
North of Havana.......2005-09-08
Love the "Doc Ford" adventures, especially all the references to Florida. Author makes each page an easy read and very hard to put down in the middle of the adventures. Just discovered Randy Wayne White and want more, more, more!!!
The Heat Islands.......2005-09-07
A sound follow up to White's "Sanibel Flats". Interestingly, White chooses to change his style and still makes it work. He adds an environmental flavor and again comes up with a thoroughly interesting story and a great read.
Top Writer, Top Researcher Excellent Doc Ford Series #2.......2005-08-14
I have read all of Randy Wayne Wright's Doc Ford books and am anxiously awaiting his next. This particular book is the one that really got me hooked into the characters and Doc Ford. Mr. Wright is an unusual writer in that his books are based in Florida and are quite accurate and informative about the state, as well as entertaining about the characters and intriguing about the mysteries he incorporates. I have encouraged several fellow Floridians to read him and they all feel the same way. This man is OUR FLORIDA AUTHOR and in my opinion has John MacDonald beat by a mile.
Keep on writing Randy.
a worthy series.......2004-04-04
HEAT ISLANDS is the second book in the Doc Ford mystery series, after SANIBEL FLATS. Ford, a marine biologist and ex-secret agent, is pulled into trouble when a friend is accused of murder. The case is tied to some shady dealings involving land and the Floridian environment-destroying building boom.
Ford mourns for a lost Florida, everywhere he goes the state has been overrun by tourits and developers. He's trying to hide at a quiet marina, but (like his forefather Travis Mcgee) can't resist a friend in need. White's description of Florida's nature is wonderful. The villain is sort of a stereotypical nut job, but Ford's quiet heroism makes up for it. Recommended.
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THE HEAT ISLANDS: Mariine biologist and former secret operative Doc Ford is lazily poling his skiff along Southwest Florida's flat copper sea in search of sea anemones, when he runs into the body of the most hated man on Sanibel Island -- Marvin Rios. And when the Island's simplest and sweetest resident is arrested for the murder, Doc heads straight into the heart of the sunshine state's dark side -- to save his friend from being framed, and to save Sanibel Island from a rising tide of land-grab schemes, blood money and violence. THE MAN WHO INVENTED FLORIDA: When solitary marine biologist Doc Ford focused his telescope on the woman in the white boat, he didn't know his life was about to be capsized: that his conniving uncle Tucker Gatrell would discover the Fountain of Youth, that The National Enquirer would write about it, and that the law would beat down his door in search of three missing men. But Doc Ford is about to find these things out -- the hard way. Because in the shadowy world of Southwest Florida, where gators yawn, cattle graze, and Indian bones are buried, mysteries great and small have found the man to solve them . . .
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Being Preyed Upon
Emily Victoria
Manufacturer: PublishAmerica
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ASIN: 1424108632 |
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In Being Preyed Upon, Emily Victoria explores our purpose in this world through the eyes of Kristi Mahoney, only a child when her best friend was killed by strange beasts. Kristi leaves the small desert sanctuary created after the slaughtering and struggles to survive with a tiny pixie named Nisswa, who holds an earth-shattering secret beyond anything we have ever imagined.
Customer Reviews:
Being Preyed Upon.......2005-12-22
A wonderful story! It is hard to imagine that a 12 year old could write something so philosophical. This is a young lady on the rise to the best seller list. I highly recommend it for middle school to adult. I could imagine this story being turned into a movie. Very impressive.
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Isaac Asimov's Skin Deep
Gardner R. Dozois
Manufacturer: Ace Books
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One of the best collections yet from the magazine........2002-11-08
This another in the "Isaac Asimov's" series that collects stories from his magazines and publishes them on a comment theme. This theme is sexuality in science fiction -- no, not about sex and robots as the cover suggests; yes, I was disappointed by that. Of the ten stories, five are great -- they flow well, the characters make you care, the dialog is realistic, and the plot ties together well throughout. These five are: Brian Stableford's "Bedside Conversations" about sex change and childbirth in unlikely bodies; Peni R. Griffin's "The Goat Man" about how the beastly man is not always the beast your mother told you to avoid; Connie Willis' "Even the Queen" about alternatives to "naturalness" and the willingness to forgo it for less pain; Tanith Lee's "Zelle's Thursday" which is thankfully about robots and domestic problems of human beings; and finally Deborah Wessell's "The Last One to Know" that has shows gender extending into marital roles in surprising ways. The other five are either a bit too confusing, a bit too long, or a bit too, well, much for my personal tastes -- that's coming from a BDSM erotica folks!
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One of the best.......2006-11-04
This book assumes that you know something about cooking and working in a kitchen. Many times amounts of ingredients are not specified, but easily guessed at. The recipies are relatively easily prepared and well worth any effort. I have never prepared a poor meal using this book. Ms. David was a leader in Britain in bring continental cooking to the British Kitchen. This is not a new book but still one of the best, and a favorite. I have used it since 1972 and am still finding things to make. Compared to Alice Waters, the preparations are less fussy but equally satisfying. I would recommend this book to a cook who has experience, it is most likely not a good wedding present, but entirely appropriate for the 5th anniversary.
A Fountainhead of Modern American Cuisine.......2003-12-13
Elizabeth David is one of foremost writers on food in the latter half of the 20th century and this book has her most celebrated writing. For this reason, I was inspired to write this modest review when I saw Amazon feature the volume as an offering, 43 years after it's first publication in England.
It is a coincidence of no small meaning that this book appeared within two years before the publication of Julia Child et al's landmark `Mastering the Art of French Cooking'. Child was even worried, when David's book appeared, that it may steal a lot of the thunder from Child and her colleague's effort. The fact is, the two books are very much like the Wittgensteinian `duck rabbit' optical illusion in that they deal with the same subject but from different points of view.
One distinction is that while Child's book is simply a cookbook of French recipes, David's book is a long essay on French cuisine, offering the sketches of recipes more as exercizes to be completed by the reader than as true recipes. In fact, it is one of the most enduring legacies of Child's book that it redefined the detail to which a recipe writer should go in order to adequately communicate the process of preparing a dish.
A second distinction between the two is that they deal with two different facets of French cuisine. As David recites from work by Curnonsky, there is haute cuisine, la cuisine Bourgeoise, la cuisine Regionale, and la cuisine Improvisee. David discourses on the third while Child, et al present the second.
For many, including such luminaries as Jeremiah Tower and Alice Waters, Elizabeth David is the fountainhead of thinking on the French notion of `la cuisine terroir', sometimes interpreted by the notion `what grows together goes together'. For David, this is the heart of regional cooking, and the thing which most distinguishes it from cooking at restaurants where clientele arrive at any time of the year or the day and expect to be able to order virtually any well known French speciality.
One of the passages which best characterizes David's approach to a lot of cooking is her opening statement on the perfect omelette: `As everybody knows, there is only one infallible recipe for the perfect onelette: you own.' I'm sure this would not work for Daniel Boulud, but it works just fine for me, after having seen about five (5) different, contrary techniques on how to make the perfect omelette.
It's interesting to constantly encounter reminders that the book was written before the widespread distribution of Teflon coated cookware, as there is no mention of it, even for egg cookery. I believe the book is all the more valuable for this fact, in that it paints a picture of a cooking style which has irrevokably been changed by technology. A second technological change brought upon the world by the French themselves is the 'robot-coupe' or food processor. It's noteworthy that the device is only mentioned in Notes to the 1985 edition where it is pointed out that the device was a major contribution to both the good and the bad aspects of nouvelle cuisine.
As stated above, the recipes are not as much presented as a blueprint to reproduce every dish cited, but rather to illuminate the discourse. One of my favorites is the entry for Salade Nicoise, where not one but four (4) different variations are given, including the variation of Escoffier.
The sections on French kitchen equipment and French techniques appear to be quite complete and absolutely essential if you embark on reading a cookbook written in French. The book has a short essay on each of the major culinary regions of France, starting. Almost obviously with Provence which is blessed not so much with great culinary talent as a great source of produce, similar, perhaps to the situation in California where the `la cuisine terroir' could take root much more easily than in Toledo or Albany. The largest portion of the book is chapters on cuisine by type of foodstuf or type of preparation such as:
Sauces
Hors-D'oeuvres and Salads
Soups
Eggs and Cheese
Pates and Terrines
Vegetables
Fish
Shellfish
Meat
Composite Meat Dishes
Poultry and Game
Left-overs
Sweet dishes
The book ends with a bibliography which alone is worth the price of the paperback volume.
This book begs to be read from cover to cover. The only other writers who come to mind of a similar caliber are John Thorne, M.F.K. Fisher, and Harold McGee. Elizabeth David's books belong in the library of anyone who loves to read and prepare food and this is her best.
A trailblazer for all cooks.......2003-01-21
The truly remarkable thing about Elizabeth David was not so much that she could write enthralling and compelling cookbooks ("Mediterranean Food", "French Provincial Cooking", "Italian Cooking"), but that she transformed a glum, drab post-war England by the beauty of her prose and her ability to evoke the sunshine and brilliant colours of the mediterranean. And, further north, the simple beauty of cuisine bourgeoise, home cooking french style.
It was this book that got me started on a lifetime of home cooking. Like all great cookbooks, it can be read and savored without cooking at all. Her ability to evoke time and place is startling -- for example, her recipe for little courgette souffles is wrapped in the story of how she first enjoyed them. Of course, this was in a small country restaurant where the proprietor used his own recipe to make them for her.
She talks vividly about La Mere Poulard and her Mont St. Michel omelettes, for which she offers the original recipe. Roughly translated from the french, it reads: "Monsieur, I get some good eggs, I put them in a bowl and beat vigorously. Then I put them into a pan with good butter and stir constantly. I will be very happy if this recipe gives you pleasure".
I remember, over 30 years ago, the first time I made her recipe for pork chops "to taste like wild boar". They do indeed, and very good they are. Her recipes for classics like Cassoulet, and Bouillabaisse are vivid and provide the cultural context as well as precise directions. Her description of a bouillabaisse on the beach makes you want to catch the next plane there.
She explains the environment of her recipes, their milieu, and their progenitors so that you get right inside the whole theory and practice of french cooking. This is not haute cuisine, though it is not always simple to execute. But her sympathy for the process of cooking and her ability to describe it precisely prefigured writers like Richard Olney and Alice Waters, who owe her, as do we all, a great debt.
In any case, she is directly responsible for the appalling culinary assaults I have perpetrated on family and friends for longer than I care to remember. I still use the book, though most of its pages are now stored directly in my memory.
La Bonne Vrai Cuisine de France.......2002-01-23
This book is unequaled, engrossing, superlative. It remains, despite the four decades since its publication, the finest book on authentic French cooking in the English language. To that extent, it is uncompromising - a quality not likely to endear it to the timid or fadish american cook - but never daunting. The sheer sensuous beauty of the food evoked in these pages is a loving, prolonged essay on one of the glories of western civilization.
Good food, good times.......2001-07-19
An enjoyable, anecdotal cookbook that has rightly become a classic. Having inspired a whole generation of post-war cooks, this text remains relevant to readers and cooks today. Still- I wish they'd bring back the original covers. They were part of the charm.
Customer Reviews:
Great introduction to the French regional cuisines........2003-01-29
In its roughly 50 parts, all written by experienced cooks and cook book writers, HP Books' "The Book of ... Cooking" series takes you to the cuisines of various regions of the U.S. and around the world; all in easy to follow, well-explained recipes.
This installment, the Book of French Provincial Cooking, starts with a brief introduction into the basics of the French regional cuisine, and then presents recipe suggestions for all major courses, from soups to desserts and patisserie. Special chapters are dedicated to fish and shellfish, poultry, (red) meat, and vegetables and salads. Classics such as boeuf Bourguignon, cassoulet, coq au vin, creme caramel, croquet Monsieur, entrecote Bordelaise, gratin Savoyard, lamb with rosemary, leek tart, Madeleines, Mediterranean fish soup (bouillabaisse), moules mariniere, oeufs a la neige, omelette aux herbes, onion soup, pork with cider, poulet Basquaise, ratatouille, salade nicoise, sole meuniere, steak with bearnaise sauce, tarragon lamb noisettes and tarte tatin appear next to unique dishes such as creamed cauliflower soup, eggs in red wine, mackerel and gooseberries, mussels with cream, pate de champagne, roast garlic monkfish, salmon in red wine, skate with brown butter, and warm spinach salad.
From anchovy spread to zucchini gratin, this collection of recipes, while not all-encompassing, is a great introduction to the richness of the French provincial cuisine - and at a relative bargain price, to boot. Also recommended: This series' installments on North African, Mediterranean, Spanish and Greek cooking, on fondues, and on crepes and omelets.
Great French food, clear instructions.......2001-09-27
I've recently become interested in French cooking and have purchased several cookbooks. I especially like this one because of the clear instructions, photos, and the authenticity of the recipes.
Simple, straightforward, no fluff.......2000-09-14
Without any preamble, this little book dives right into an array of tasty provincial recipies. With the sole exception (so far) of the trout with watercress, everything I've made from these pages has been right on the money. Buy it.
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Clementine in the Kitchen
Manufacturer: Hastings House
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ASIN: B000CQXH7A |
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Clementine in the Kitchen is a light-hearted, entertaining tale, a nostalgic picture for lovers of France and New England. It is also a practical account of good food which will make your mouth water as you realize that it is a workable adaptation of the French provincial cuisine to American markets and cooking methods. An appendix with 125 recipes from Clementine's notebook, Samuel Chamberlain's famous etchings and Henry Stahlhut's delightful line drawings make this a book for every library and a necessity for every kitchen where good food is considered an art.
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Plainly it is about French cooking and recipes.
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FRENCH PROVINCIAL COOKING
Manufacturer: Michael Joseph Ltd.
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Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: B0000CMT81 |
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Great Dane: An Owner's Guide to a Happy Healthy Pet
Jill Swedlow
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These big, lovable dogs have been popular for yea—they're hard to miss! Find out the best way to keep your Great Dane happy and in tip-top shape with this beginner's guide. You'll learn everything from nutrition to grooming to health care tips, and much more.
Jill Swedlow shows and breeds Great Danes and is the author of several books about them.
Customer Reviews:
Well...........2007-02-15
This book has some basic and very general knowledge. I was a bit dissappointed, and had hoped it would give me a more complete picture of the Great Dane breed
Book Description
Handmade paper has a unique texture and an individual quality that makes it not only a surface to write or print on, but also an object of beauty. With a small investment in equipment (or the supplies to make it from scratch), a small harvest of backyard weeds or garden plants, and the guidance of papermaking expert Helen Hiebert, anyone can make exquisite papers right in the home kitchen.
Hiebert’s basic papermaking techniques, laid out in illustrated step-by-step instructions, make it easy to blend and shape a variety of organic papers from such common plants as hosta, milkweed, and thistledown, as well as the more unusual pineapple, yucca, and seaweed. She describes how to collect, harvest, and process the plant fibers and then create sheets using both Western and Japanese techniques.
Inspired by the community of papermaking artists she is a part of, Hiebert features profiles of papermakers from around the world, highlighting their individual tips and techniques. She also includes project instructions for using handmade paper to create one-of-a-kind cards and envelopes, multi-paneled lampshades, and accordion-fold books. There are also instructions for embellishing techniques such as adding flower petals, creating collages, and dyeing with richly colored walnut shells.
From plant to finished paper, the simple completeness and beauty of
Papermaking with Garden Plants & Common Weeds will appeal to craftspeople, gardeners, environmentalists, teachers, and anyone who enjoys creating from nature.
Customer Reviews:
The children's book that isn't.......2007-01-14
This book was listed under children's books, albeit via an Amazon link. We bought it as a gift for a 10-year old. A children's book it isn't; it is designed for a serious adult hobbiest. Since we bought it with several other items using SuperSaver, returning it would mean paying shipping, etc. It's just lying on the sofa; we will give it away or throw it away.
Inspiration for everyone.......2006-08-04
Helen Hiebers 'Papermaking with Garden Plants and Common Weeds' is a richly illustrated guide to papermaking. It takes you through the whole process the making of the tools, to harvesting, treating the fibers, couching paper and using the paper for different projects. There is never just one way of doing things, but a basic instruction and then suggestions for several other ways of doing the same.
Helen Hiebert is conscious of safety and points out all things dangerous and risky and how to protect yourself.
This book is a joy to read and a great handbook for making paper.
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T. Raphael Simons, America's leading feng shui expert, teaches readers how to transform their homes to attract, enhance, and enrich romantic love in their lives. Based on ancient Taoist secrets that join feng shui and Chinese astrology, Simons’ method is personalized through questionnaires and individualized charts. Readers will learn how to use their own personal styles of relating, relationship elements, and areas of special interest to arrange their homes in a personally meaningful and effectual way.
With THE FENG SHUI OF LOVE you can:
· Read your personal horoscope and your astrological compatibilities with others in your life
· Read your romantic fortune according to your door’s compass direction
· Discover your personal element, your relationship element, auspicious compass directions for aligning your furniture, and auspicious colors
· Discover your yin/yang style of relating
· Discover which element you favor most in your life and what it means for you
· Learn how to neutralize negative energy through the use of objects and colors
· Learn how to achieve perfect harmony and balance in your environment
· Learn detailed yet practical solutions for achieving a nurturing, loving environment
From the Hardcover edition.
Customer Reviews:
How to Really Improve Relationships.......2001-09-17
This book is an ingenious gift from the author. The secrets shared here have helped any number of lives, some of whom I know personally. Simons literally reverse-engineers ancient four pillar feng shui to make some of its most profound insights available to westerners. He approaches relationships not on the perfunctory level often prescribed by the latest fad book, but on the soul level where all of our relationship outcomes are ultimately determined.
This book is a TRUE how-to for relationship enhancement. It invokes feng shui in the way it is meant to be used, to enhance rather than substitute for self-knowledge. What a fantastic opportunity this book provides those who seriously want to improve the world through relationships and feng shui.
And it's not difficult! Simons' brilliance is that the complex Taoist calculations and philosophies are rendered here in common-sense terms that are accessible to and effective for all. Be prepared for a wonderful journey with this book.
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Cabinet 1: Invented Languages
Manufacturer: Cabinet
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Release Date: 2004-01-02 |
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Description: Cabinet is a quarterly magazine of art and culture that confounds expectations of what is typically meant by the words "art," "culture," and even sometimes "magazine." Like the 17th-century cabinet of curiosities to which its name alludes, Cabinet is as interested in the margins of culture as the center. Featuring wide-ranging, multi-disciplinary content in each issue through the varied formats of regular columns, essays, interviews, and special artist projects, Cabinet's hybrid sensibility merges the popular appeal of an arts periodical with the visually engaging style of a design magazine and the in-depth exploration of a scholarly journal. Playful and serious, exuberant and committed, Cabinet's omnivorous appetite for understanding the world makes each of its issues a valuable sourcebook of ideas for a wide range of readers, from artists and designers to scientists and historians. Cabinet was founded on the proposition that an art magazine that genuinely tried to reflect the contemporary artist's relationship to the world might end up being utterly unrecognizable as an art magazine. Cabinet is, paradoxically, an art magazine that almost never writes about art. Instead, the magazine invites its readers to participate in an ongoing investigation of the connections between superficially unrelated aspects of cultural expression. In an age of increasing specialization, Cabinet looks to previous models of the well-rounded thinker to forge a new type of magazine for the intellectually curious reader of the future.
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China Dreams: Growing Up Jewish in Tientsin (Singular Lives)
Isabelle Maynard
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