Book Description
In this Edgar Award nominated mystery, John Maddox Roberts takes readers back to a Rome filled with violence and evil. Vicious gangs ruled the streets of Crassus and Pompey-- routinely preying on plebeian and patrician alike. So the garroting of a lowly ex-slave and the disembowelment of a foreign merchant in the dangerous Subura district seemed of little consequence to the Roman hierarchy.But Decius Caecilius Metellus the Younger--high-born commander of the local vigiles -- was determined to investigate.Despite official apathy, brazen bribes and sinister threats, Decius uncovers a world of corruption at the highest levels of his government that threatens to destroy him and the government he serves.AUTHORBIO: John Maddox Roberts has written numerous works of science fiction and fantasy, in addition to his successful SPQR mystery series. His latest book in the series, SPQR VI: Nobody Loves a Centurion will be published later this year. He lives in New Mexico with his wife.
Customer Reviews:
Strong on history, light on mystery ..........2007-07-29
This is the first book in the SPQR series about a Roman investigator named Decius Caecilium Metellus. The story takes place in 70 B.C. during the rise of Julius Caeser. It provides more historical background than many mysteries set in the past. But he mystery itself is rather obvious and predictable.
You learn quite a bit about social classes and the politics of the times. The mystery is more or less secondary and involves multiple murders and political corruption.
I especially liked the glossary at the end of the book. I used it quite heavily for the first chapter or two.
First book in a great series........2007-06-10
John Maddox Roberts starts off the SPQR series with a great book. His research is obviously thorough and the fascinating details of everyday Roman life are most interesting. The reader is lead little by little, clue by clue, to the satisfying conclusion. Makes you want to read the rest of the series!
Not a bad Roman Romp.......2007-06-09
Very similar to the Roman books of Steven Saylor. You'll learn a bit about ancient Rome during the rise of Ceaser but although the hidden plot is interesting and reasonable I felt that his portrayal of important persons was a little forced at times and it distracted me, but I'm looking forward to reading more of these books.
Another in the SPQR Series.......2007-03-10
John Maddox Roberts is the pseudonym of Mark Ramsay, author of numerous works of science fiction and fantasy, in addition to his successful historical SPQR mystery series. He lives in New Mexico with his wife.
Anyone who is a fan of Lindsey Davis, Steven Saylor or David Wishart will love the SPQR series of books by the author. Once again we have an addition to the ever growing number of amateur detectives patrolling the streets of ancient Rome, solving mysteries and crimes. Not all at the same time, I may add, in fact not even in the same centuries. Decius Caecilius Metellus the Younger, a high-born bad boy, is the offering of the author and he is just as interesting, likeable and believable as the leading characters from the author's contemporaries.
The city of Rome is at its lowest ebb for many years. The streets of the city are filled with violence and the vicious gangs are preying on high and low born alike. When a lowly ex-slave is found garrotted and a foreign merchant is disembowelled in the Subura district of the city it would normally be of little consequence and quickly forgotten or pushed aside by the powers that be.
But Decius Caecilius Metellus the Younger, the commander of the local vigiles station has other ideas and is determined to investigate the matter. Coming from high born stock Metellus has some contacts who may be able to help in the matter, but as he digs deeper he uncovers a festering sore of bribes, threats and corruption, right up to the highest levels of Roman government.
Much Better and Less Grim than Saylor.......2007-02-26
If you love historicals and you love the late Roman Republic, this much underrated series is for you. John Maddox Roberts is a gifted writer with a talent for brevity, and has a much lighter touch than Steven Saylor. The main character of this series is engaging and witty. Where Saylor's work is poignant, this is more in keeping with the wry Roman spirit. Petronius would have loved these books. And so did I.
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Enjoy an evening by the fireside in the land of myth, magic and vampires. Experience firsthand three tales from the pages of the smash hit comic book series, Warlands. In the tone of Tolkien-style high fantasy, a band of would-be heroes fight to save their homes from destruction at the hands of the vampire armies of the Dataran Horde.
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A psychologist offers peace-making strategies for parents who don't know where to turn.
The sullen, withdrawn, sarcastic teenager. The defensive, wary, and helpless parent. This book builds a bridge between the two sides--with practical and supportive advice on how to:
* Contain conflicts before they escalate into violence
* Break through the teen's verbal intimidation
* Avoid futile arguments
* Turn confrontation into communication
* Stand firm against teen rage
* Manage teen manipulation
* Build the teen's self-esteem
* Talk to teens when no one knows what to say
For ever parent who's screamed, what am I going to do with you?, this book finally provides the answer.
Customer Reviews:
Empowerment and Respect.......2007-07-21
This book is fantastic. I have spent the last ten years learning how to raise a very, very difficult child/teen. Much of what I learned in expensive therapy and specialist programs is covered in Edgette's book - and more effectively than in any of the many, many other books I've read. Stop Negotiating with Your Teen is concise and easy to understand. Edgette has a thorough understanding of these kids and the challenges they present. She doesn't try and create a standardised perfect parent. Instead she offers a practical, common sense approach to parenting that empowers parents to parent as leaders. She also helps parents to help their difficult teen make better choices. Siblings and parents alike benefit from the ensuing changes. Everyone in the family wins.
Helpful, Useful Information.......2007-07-13
I was an angry, manipulative, moody and depressed adolescent--in fact I wrote about it in my book, CONFESSIONS OF A CATHOLIC SCHOOLGIRL by Michelle Kane.
This book has some outstanding strategies that may have worked if my parents paid enough attention to me and stopped fighting with each other long enough to try some of them.
Stop Negotiating with Your Teen.......2007-06-11
Great book.... I would highly recommend this book for those parents who are at their wits end. This book offers great examples. I have used some of the suggestions in my own home setting.
That's my son you're talking about!.......2007-01-18
On the advice of my best friend (to whom I have confided my child-rearing problems for over 25 years) I bought the book - Stop Negotiating With Your Teen:Strategies for Parenting Your Angry, Manipulative, Moody or Depressed Adolescent. I did so because my teen/adult son (age 20) is all of the above. I really liked the author's writing style. She mixed real-life cases with some clear cut behavior advice as well as behavior styles the teen may use. Boy, was I surprised to learn that my son was manipulating me and that I was letting him. It was a big eye-opener for me. I heavily relied on parts of the book that I read and re-read that really applied to our situation. Each time we had an encounter I could then more clearly draw upon the author's experience and the behaviors she wanted to encourage - both my son's and mine. I can tell you it has made a difference. A particularly nasty exchange that would have left me totally defeated was instead turned into a real chance for communication because of what I learned in this book. I would highly recommend this to anyone regardless of the age or managability of your teen. I have already loaned the book to a good friend who has a teenage daughter with an anger problem and she found it so valuable. A very good resource!
Gentle reminder for common sense.......2007-01-07
If you are looking at this book, my heart goes out to you. This book doeesn't offer much in the way of a guideline, although has some nice stories that will make you feel like you're not going crazy. My real advice to you, after years of counseling, books, and true anguish of a mother, is to keep it simple. If your teen is depressed or struggling, they are not ready to respond to adult logic or reasoning. (That is why you are arguing all the time!) They need your love and compassion, but they also need consistency and consequences commensurate with their choices of actions. Pick your "must have's"...for example, must have no surliness at dinner? (That's reasonable! Especially if you have younger kids!) Surly at dinner? No cell phone or IM-ing for the rest of the evening. Don't tell them "why", or give them the platitude of "we're trying to love you, to show you, to blah blah blah"...they TRULY DON'T CARE why. Instead, make a list of choices, and their consequences...and then consistently apply them without arguing (by the way, there is no answer to "why are you doing this to me?")...end the tears, arguments and discussions. Keep it simple...your teen has enough mind games, uncertainty, pressure, frustration and communication issues at school. You should be the place where they know how it will end up, which is support, love, conveniences of home, and they also know how their choices will affect those rewards! And finally, don't blame yourself. Your teens depression and angst is a result of much, much more than the decisions you made in the past. It is what it is, and give them consistency, no arguing, and love to get through what the present is, not the past. My prayers to you and your family.
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Alice Waters's Chez Panisse is one of America's great restaurants. Dedicated to serving French country food made from the finest American ingredients (and furthering the cause of local, conscientiously produced foods of all kinds), the restaurant is also responsible for a remarkable series of cookbooks, including Chez Panisse Vegetables and the Chez Panisse Menu Cookbook. Chez Panisse Fruit, coauthored by Waters, proceeds in the innovative spirit of its predecessors, offering 200 exquisite sweet and savory fruit recipes, plus essays that attune readers to growing and marketing issues so they can make wise seasonal selections. Conceived with utmost simplicity, recipes like Spit-Roasted Pork with Onion-and-Apple Marmalade, Caramelized Red Banana Tartlets, and Grilled Cured Duck Breasts with Pickled Peaches truly celebrate the fruits they feature. Though not difficult to prepare, the recipes demand a cook's full attention--at the market as well as in the kitchen. The reward is memorable eating.
Arranged alphabetically from apples to strawberries, the book treats familiar and less familiar fruit, including citron (in dishes like Sautéed Scallops with Citron), loquats (used in Catherine's Loquat Sauce, a delicious accompaniment to grilled meats), and mulberries (delightful in ice cream and sherbet). There are also superb versions of raspberry ice cream, cranberry relish, and blueberry buttermilk pancakes, as well as must-try "original" fare like Rocket Salad with Pomegranates and Toasted Hazelnuts, Tangerine and Chocolate Semifreddo, and Moroccan Chicken with Dates. A section of basics also provides exemplary formulas for the likes of pie dough, biscuits, and pastry cream. Illustrated in the Chez Panisse tradition with relief prints of the fruit, the book is an appreciation of one of our most glorious resources and, tacitly, a call to consciousness about the need to preserve it at its best. --Arthur Boehm
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In 2001 Chez Panisse was named the number one restaurant in America by Gourmet magazine -- quite a journey from 1971 when Alice Waters opened Chez Panisse as a place where she and her friends could cook country French food with local ingredients and talk politics.
As the restaurant's popularity grew, so did Alice's commitment to organic, locally grown foods and to a community of farmers and producers who provide the freshest ingredients, grown and harvested naturally with techniques that preserve and enrich the land for future generations. After thirty years, the innovative spirit and pure, intense flavors of Chez Panisse continue to delight and surprise all who visit, and even those who cant get there know that Alice started a quiet revolution, changing the culinary landscape forever. Inspired by Chez Panisse, more and more people across the country are discovering the sublime pleasures of local, organic vegetables and fruits.
Now join Alice Waters and the cooks at Chez Panisse in celebration of fruit. Chez Panisse Fruit draws on the exuberant flavors of fresh, ripe fruit to create memorable dishes. In this companion volume to Chez Panisse Vegetables, discover more than 200 recipes for both sweet and savory dishes featuring fruit. Glorify the late-summer peach harvest with Peach and Raspberry Gratin, and extend the season with Grilled Cured Duck Breast with Pickled Peaches. Enjoy the first plums in Pork Loin Stuffed with Wild Plums and Rosemary. Preserve the fresh flavors of winter citrus with Kumquat Marmalade or Candied Grapefruit Peel. Organized alphabetically by fruit -- from apples to strawberries -- and including helpful essays on selecting, storing, and preparing fruit, this book will help you make the very most of fresh fruits from season to season. Illustrated with beautiful color relief prints by Patricia Curtan, Chez Panisse Fruit is a book to savor and to treasure.
Customer Reviews:
A Touchstone Recipe Book.......2006-06-17
This gorgeous book looks like an art piece, reads like an authority, and has wonderful recipes for the chef. I love this book! Fruits is a book that I pull out to just read about apple varieties with no intention of cooking them! The recipes are divine. I also love the dessert recipes. If you can't get to the restaurant, get the book!
Excellent Reference for Highly Seasonable Subject. Buy It........2005-01-03
`Chez Panisse Fruit' by Alice Waters and her staff is the companion volume to a similarly formatted and illustrated `Chez Panisse Vegetables'. While I gave the latter volume only four stars, I can give this very similar volume five stars simply because, to my knowledge, there are not many good cookbooks around for fruits alone. And, this is a very valuable type of book to have on hand.
I am constantly reminded of the central insight of Tom Colicchio's book `How to Think Like a Chef' where he points out that chefs do not create recipes then go looking for ingredients. The creative process is exactly the opposite. They look to see what they have on hand and create something based on this. Tony Bourdain reminds us about this in his book, `Kitchen Confidential', when he warns us about the specials of the day, as they are probably built out of ingredients which are becoming a bit long in the tooth to hold much longer in the walk-in refrigerator. This principle becomes writ large with every chef / author crowing about their using fresh, seasonal ingredients. They mention this far less often, but I'm sure they also create recipes and menus based on what is cheap as much as on what is fresh. Since seasonal generally coincides with less expensive, they can tout seasonal and hide their economical self-interest at work. This principle of using what you have also makes me skeptical of really how difficult the old `Iron Chef' premise is for first class chefs, as they really do this kind of thing every day of their working lives, if they are still working in the kitchen. This competition is stressful, but it is simply taking what they every day do to it's extreme.
But I ramble. The whole point of this digression was that cookbooks organized by raw ingredient are a really great resource for the cook who likes to work economically. What can be better in the Fall when apples and pears come into season than to have a book with a nice selection of interesting things to do with apples and pears. The book is divided into thirty-eight chapters, with each giving recipes on a major fruit available in the United States, with the number of recipes corresponding roughly to the popularity of the fruit. Some few chapters cover a family of fruits, as when the Bananas chapter includes a recipe for plantains.
While the larger number of recipes are for desserts, provided I suspect primarily by Ms. Waters' partner, Lindsey Shere and her pastry staff at Chez Panisse, there are also several hot savory recipes and salad recipes using fruit. Two very common uses of fruit with meat, for example, are apples in poulet a la Normandie (Normandy apples with chicken) and grilled duck breast with pickled peaches.
Like the `Vegetables' volume, this book is as comfortable in the armchair as it is in the kitchen. It has the same stylish design and the same delightfully Art Nouveau colored woodcut prints of the principal fruits. The introductions to each ingredient, aside from a terse statement about the fruit's seasonality, are `free form' essays about those things that are most interesting about the fruit. This is entirely fair, as lemons are a far, far more important ingredient to all types of cooking than rhubarb. As Ms. Waters explains, even though rhubarb is a vegetable, at Chez Panisse (and lots of other places as well), it is used in the same manner as sour fruits and it bridges the gap in the seasons between the winter and summer tree fruits.
Unlike the vegetable book, this volume ends with a chapter of general procedures useable with many different fruit recipes. These recipes include galette and sweet pie doughs, biscuits, puff pastry, sabayon, frangipane, sponge cake, and pastry cream. While these recipes are great to have on hand in a book of pie ingredients, you may prefer to go to a book from a pastry specialist such as Rose Levy Beranbaum, Nick Malgieri, or Wayne Harley Brachman for expert advice on crusts. I take Miss Alice's claim that her pate sucree recipe will never get tough and will not shrink when baked. I will not even test this statement, as I am quite happy with the piecrust I am used to. I doubt the claims for this recipe in that it is almost identical to the one I use, which does get tough and does shrink unless I take special care in handling it.
If I were editing this book and had but one suggestion by which it could be improved, I would make the selection of recipes across fruits just a bit more uniform. For example, there is a recipe for blackberry jelly, but no recipe for orange marmalade. On the other hand, almost all the classics are here, such as applesauce, Moroccan preserved lemons, and pears poached in wine. What would be the value of a book on fruits if you could not go to it for the standards?
I would buy both volumes simply because they look very nice on my shelf. The fact that they come with the Chez Panisse imprimatur doesn't hurt. And, rest assured that not only are the recipes in this book worth having, they are very accessible though an excellent table of contents and a description of the procedure which is easy to read, easy to follow, and informative. Like all of Ms. Waters' cookbooks I have reviewed, they may not be the best for the total novice. There is lots of advanced advice, but a fair amount of knowing your way around the kitchen is assumed.
Like playwright Jean Anouith who bought a green bound book on Joan of Arc to fit an empty space on his bookshelf, he ended up reading the book and writing a famous play `The Lark' on Joan of Arc. This is the kind of book from which good things can spring.
A Big Morsel for Repertoire and Soul.......2003-06-17
Alice Waters and the staff at Chez Panisse forged the standard for fresh cuisine. Instead of an overwhelming emphasis on abstract-innovations and culinary interpretations, Panisse offered diners a glorious showcase of products at their best, in the most bare and most essential.
This cookbook offers home cooks and curious readers insight into the ground-breaking process that changed the way we think about produce. From the get-go, the book's appeal is not in its starkly modern and sophisticated food styling or photography. Rather, the visual impact imparts a sense of familiarity and comfort; as if it were a relative's old cookbook to rummage through, full of beautifully printed fruit.
Listed alphabetically, each chapter offers practical information such as the history, popular use, and general availability of the fruit. Keep in mind (as Waters does) that much of the produce available to Panisse is do to the abundance in agricultural activity around the Berkeley area. However, this should not sway readers and cooks toward the negative. On the contrary. More knowledge of certain produce, local or exotic, continually empowers the curious foodie to venture into new unknown territory and inquire for it at farmer's markets, the road side stand, or supermarket.
In other words, demand what you can get, appreciate what's available to you, and use it wisely, letting the fullest flavor come through. Berries in New England, citrus in California, or peaches in Georgia, the book offers a well-spring of knowledge and recipes that follow the Panisse dictum.
The fact that the book isn't jam-packed with recipes I view as a positive. Waters offers a taste of what can be done. The rest, the new, can be devised by the Panisse chefs AND the home cook thanks to an arsenal of knowledge.
Well worth the expense.......2002-12-28
Nice illustrations, very informative, good recipies. Teaches you about when the various fruits are in season, how to prepare them, and what accompaniments are best served alongside each one. I've used several recipies at work, and they have been a hit with the others in my workplace.
Excellent Reference.......2002-07-18
This book provides an excellent reference guide for learning about different varieties of fruits, the cooking methods they are best suited for, and how to look for and purchase the best fruits. The recipes are simple, designed to showcase the flavor of the fruit, not to disguise it. The illustrations in this book are absolutely beautiful, I would love to have them framed for my kitchen walls! This book would make a wonderful gift for any cook, but particularly those who enjoy shopping the local farmers markets for seasonal produce.
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12 blank folded cards (4 images repeating 3 times), 12 envelopes
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Fruits of Chez Panisse 2004 Engagement Calendar
Alice Water ,
Alice Waters , and
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Manufacturer: Chronicle Books
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Exquisite illustrations of fruit culled from the restaurant's beautifully detailed menus and the cookbook Chez Panisse Fruit are paired with new recipes for delightful fruit dishes.
Customer Reviews:
Decent book, but too many types of animals.......2006-02-05
I was looking for ideas to feature dogs & cats and more than half the page layouts in this book concerned farm animals, wild animals, zoo animals etc. I felt the topic should have been one or the other because I felt there weren't enough dog pages.
The layouts gave me a few ideas, but not as much creativity as I was hoping for. I saw some magazine layout ideas for pages about dogs that I liked more that inspired me to buy this book.
Not very creative.......2005-09-07
You get better ideas from scrapbooking magazines. This book is very plain, not really creative.If you're trying to get new ideas or techniques, never buy this book!!!!!!!!!!!!I'm trying to sell mine!!!!!!!!!!!!
great idea book!!.......2005-07-18
There are tons of layout ideas in this book. If you love animals, I recommend you get it. Table of contents are:
1 Dogs
2 Cats
3 Horses
4 Birds
5 Small Animals
6 Farm Animals
7 Zoo & Animal Parks
8 In The Wild
There is 56 pages with 2 layouts per page. Many QUOTES are scattered threwout the book to use on your own pages. I just love this wonderful book. If you scrapbook your pets or any animals, I recommend this.
Book Description
Meet the brightly colored pottery that set the trend for casual mix-and-match dinnerware years before Fiesta! This pictorial overview of the pottery produced from the 1920s through the 1950s by the J. A. Bauer Pottery Company is illustrated with over 450 vibrant color photographs. Items ranging from brilliantly glazed dinnerwares and garden pots to massive oil jars and hand thrown vases are all included. A number of rare pieces are depicted as well. A brief history of the company, several original company brochures, examples of the manufacturer's marks, a bibliography, and an index round out the presentation. Prices are provided in the captions for the items displayed.
Customer Reviews:
UNFORTUNATE.......2000-06-29
For a 11+ year collector like myself, this book has too much misinformation to be of much help. Unfortunately, two or three high price dealers do not make a price guide (although EBAY auctions can get higher prices depending who is bidding). Also, many particular items and/or factory lines are missing or sadly underrepresented. Many items or photos are repeated several times. I expected better from the cover photo.
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An indispensible resource for timber importers, architects, interior designers, and woodworkers, this guide to the woods of Africa contains details that have traditionally been difficult to obtain. Each entry contains the common trade name of the wood, its botanical name, the family name, and other local and vernacular names. Also listed are the geographical range of the tree, a physical description, and the best applications of the wood. Each entry is accompanied by a color photograph of the wood, as well as a table giving various physical properties, such as shrinkage, weight, bending strength, and compression strength.
Customer Reviews:
Great information about African woods.......2004-11-04
A good book concerning African woods. The listing of the wood sorts is very clear. It is very informative. The purchase of the book was worthwhile itself for me. I would wish myself to get more such clear books. As future wood specialist trader is this book indispensable.
Very good book about African Timber.......2004-04-13
The book " The Commercial Woods of Africa " is a good division of information and scientific description. Mr Rijckevorsel seems to overlook in his appreciation completely. For me as a timber merchant it is an ideal book with outstanding overview. It is very recommendable.
Unfortunate!.......2004-03-19
As the dollar drops against the euro, books from Europe are getting ever more expensive, and Linden Publishing must have felt it was time to offer a cheap alternative to the wellknown "Tropical Timber Atlas, Volume I - Africa" (1987), the book by the joint timber trade on 83 African commercial timbers. As far as price and printing quality are concerned this was a success, a sturdy hardback at a much handier size, lovely glossy paper, offering distribution maps and color pictures at a nice size. This is a slick looking book! This book treats 90 African woods, with two (facing) pages per species, arranged by trade name. Unfortunately by content it is quite a step down from the earlier book. The names are quite a mess. Anybody looking for African blackwood either has to know that the author is German and that the German trade name is Grenadill or has to use the index. Botanical names are treated quite callously, with perhaps its worst in "Gnophyllum giganteum of the family Meliaceae": it took me something like a day to figure out that this was supposed to be "Ganophyllum giganteum of the family Sapindaceae". Obsolete names abound, as do typos. I did not look too closely at the text after finding some items that turned my stomach.
Much of the value of a book like this is in the pictures, and there are a few nice ones, but they appear the exception. Too many are useless when it comes to giving an impression of what the wood looks like; a few are plain wrong. Overall this is an attractive looking book, but users should be aware that no reliance whatsoever is to be placed on anything in this work without a careful check against a real book.
Concerning over 275 wood types used for commercial use.......2004-03-07
The Commercial Woods Of Africa: A Descriptive Full-Color Guide by timber expert Peter Phongphaew is a truly excellent, superbly information-laden resource concerning over 275 wood types used for commercial use and originating from the African continent. Full-color illustrations of natural grain and patterns, botanical names, mechanical properties, seasoning and working properties, durability, suggestions as to which uses are most and least ideal for each wood type and more pack this quality descriptive guide from cover to cover. A unique reference, The Commercial Woods Of Africa is an enthusiastically recommended addition to academic and professional reference shelves.
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- Decorative Wall Painting for Beginners by Reyes Pujol-Xicoy
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Decorative Wall Painting for Beginners (Fine Arts for Beginners)
Pujol-Xicoy
Manufacturer: Konemann
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Decorative Wall Painting for Beginners by Reyes Pujol-Xicoy.......2002-12-15
This book is awesome! I have a desire to learn Interior Decorating Techniques, but I have no experience other than being a home-owner and learning by trial and error. This books shows you how to do all the cool painting techniques that you see your friends doing! This book gives detailed instructions for 30 different painting techniques including a list of tools and materials needed to accomplish each. It also gives tips on the preparation of surfaces as well as for choice of color. You'll be inspired to paint your whole house once you see this book!
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Blanche Lazell and the Color Woodcut: From Paris to Provincetown
Barbara Stern Shapiro , and
Blanche Lazzell
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Essay by Barbara Stern Shapiro.
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Celebrate the amazing career of the Dallas Cowboys' star player, Emmit Smith! This commemorative book is loaded with fact-filled text and a stunning collection of full-color photographs spanning Smith's Hall of Fame career. Turn the pages to:
- Relive the record-breaking performance that made Smith the NFL's all-time leading rusher
- Witness Smith's physical and mental strength as he struggled to overcome injuries
- Discover Smith's emergence as the great spiritual leader of his legendary Cowboys team
- And much more!
Through the best and the worst, Smith has pushed on, earning a singular respect league-wide. This stupendous book celebrates that respect and Smith's unprecedented achievements. It's a valuable addition for the sports fan in your life!
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toms review.......2005-12-09
I really enjoyed reading this book, because it goes from Green being so sad because her mom, dad, and sister died, and then she is happy. Well the story is about Green and her family live in a house near a big city. One day when her mom, dad , and sister go to the city to sell vegetables while Green stays home and works on the garden. When it is lunch time, she goes to the hill that overlooks the city to eat her sandwich. She notices that there are flames and smoke coming from the city. She hopes that her family is still alive because when her family left to go to the city she would not say goodbye or give her mom a hug. She just ignored her. After the incident in the city, Green waits for days for her family to come home. Green knows after a while that her family is not coming home and she decides not to be the quiet shy girl anymore. She now wants to be a girl who is a rebel and one that everyone is afraid of. She..........wait I can't tell you, you will just have to read this book, and you will really enjoy this book too if you like a book with a sad beginning and a happy ending!
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- The Last Dark Place: An Abe Lieberman Mystery (Abe Lieberman)
- The Main Corpse (Goldy Culinary Mysteries, Book 6)
- The Majolica Murders
- The Mousetrap and Other Plays (Miss Marple Mysteries)
- The Pillow Book of Lady Wisteria (Sano Ichiro Novels)
- The Silver Anniversary Murder: A Christine Bennett Mystery
- The Temple of the Muses (SPQR IV)
- The Titian Committee (Art History Mystery)
- The Year of the Intern (Signet)
- Three-Course Murder (Culinary Mystery Series)
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The Sacrilege (SPQR III)
The Temple of the Muses (SPQR IV)
Saturnalia (SPQR V)
Nobody Loves a Centurion (SPQR VI)
