Erwin J.E. Rommel (Great Military Leaders of the 20th Century)

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The leading American botanist of the nineteenth century, Asa Gray helped organize the main generalizations of the science of plant geography. The manual of botany that carries his name is still in use today. Friend and confidant of Charles Darwin, Gray became the most persistent and effective American protagonist of Darwin's views. Yet at the same time, he believed that religion and Darwin's theory of natural selection could coexist. A. Hunter Dupree's authoritative biography offers the first full-length interpretation of one of America's most important men of science.

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Beautifully Illustrated, Delicious, Easy Recipes

The Williams-Sonoma Collection: Risotto
Pamela Sheldon Johns
Manufacturer: Free Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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Williams-Sonoma Collection: Soup & Stew (Williams Sonoma Collection)

ASIN: 0743226801
Release Date: 2002-11-05

Book Description

Creamy risotto, dotted with fresh spring peas or delicate shellfish, is a classic of the northern Italian table. This versatile dish never ceases to please -- combining the satisfying flavors of tender rice, fresh herbs, and seasonal ingredients with delicious results. Whether featuring grilled sausage and bell peppers, wild mushrooms, or the perfect pairing of salmon and dill, risotto is as equally well suited to simple suppers as it is to formal dinner parties.

Williams-Sonoma Collection Risotto offers more than 40 recipes, including old favorites and fresh new ideas, all rooted in the venerable Italian tradition. Warm up winter evenings with a rich, satisfying four-cheese risotto, or serve a light risotto with artichokes for an early summer supper. Delight guests with special dishes such as risotto-stuffed tomatoes or crisp risotto croquettes. Risotto recipes in the dessert chapter combine figs and almonds or chocolate and hazelnuts to complete this inspired collection.

Full-color photographs make it easy to decide which risotto to prepare, and photographic side notes highlight key ingredients and techniques throughout, making Risotto more than just a fine collection of recipes. An informative basics section and glossary include everything you need to know to make this hearty Italian dish a trusted favorite in your kitchen.

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Yummy Book!.......2006-01-08

This is a really good book about Risotto. The recipes range from light to deliciously heavy and creamy. There are also very basic instructions and tips for the beginning Risotto maker.

Excellent.......2005-05-03

I have seen risotto prepared in many different ways, unfortunately there is only one way to properly go about the task. Arborio or Carnaroli rice depending on your choice requires a certain method to extract all of the creaminess from the rice while maintaining a good al dente texture. In this book, the author here has done a wonderful job of illustrating the proper way to produce a quality risotto. Nice photos to give you ideas as risotto leaves much room for experimentation once you have mastered the basics.

Beautifully Illustrated, Delicious, Easy Recipes.......2001-02-26

Risotto is a wonderful, filling, nutritious meal and can be simple or sophisticated, served at family meals or dinner parties. (It also makes great left-overs!) Whether you're browsing or planning a menu, this book will fulfill your appetite. Each recipe is beautifully illustrated and presented on a separate page with easy-to-follow instructions. Several of the recipes I've tried have become family favorites. Just serve with a fresh baguette, and some can be considered one-dish meals.

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A perfectly delightful book of Italian Bean Recipes. Super

Fagioli: The Bean Cuisine of Italy
Judith Barrett
Manufacturer: Rodale Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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Easy Beans: Fast and Delicious Bean, Pea, and Lentil Recipes, Second Edition

ASIN: 1579547249
Release Date: 2004-09-09

Book Description

From thick, rich minestrone with beans and vegetables, to delectable chickpea fritters, here are 124 easy-to-prepare, delicious, authentic favorites-in the only cookbook devoted solely to the glories of Italian bean cookery Satisfying, nutritious, wonderfully adaptable, and one of the least expensive forms of protein, beans are an integral part of the cuisines of cultures all over the globe. This is especially true in Italy today, where you can find hundreds of bean recipes from nearly every region and where, for most families, eating beans is as fundamental as eating pasta. In Fagioli, the co-author of the best-selling cookbook Risotto celebrates the bean cuisine of Italy in all its splendid variety and versatility. Here you will find: Bean Basics-everything you need to know to cook and enjoy beans, including a guide to the most common beans in Italy and their American counterparts Ingredient Guide-information on the special Italian or hard-to-find ingredients, what they are, and how you can purchase them through mail-order and online resources124 authentic dishes-both traditional and new-providing flavorful and creative ways to prepare beans: in antipasti and salads; in soups; with grains including polenta, barley, and faro; with pasta; and in hearty entrees prepared with meats, including sausages, game, beef, lamb, and pork.

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A perfectly delightful book of Italian Bean Recipes. Super.......2004-12-14

`Fagioli' by professional cookbook writer Judith Barrett is quite clearly subtitled `The Bean Cuisine of Italy', as it is all about cooking with Italian beans.

This book immediately succeeds at the first and most important task of a special purpose cookbook in that it has made be really care about and be interested in its subject. It accomplishes this feat first by being a very attractively designed hardcover book with a very well sewn binding which nicely lays flat where you want it to. Next, it's modest artwork and typography complements its presentation so that it is simply a pleasure to read. No eye strain here. Congratulations to the Rodale Press for packaging a very nice volume. Finally, the all the introductory material is accurate to the best of my knowledge. There are no lingering myths about the risks of salting cooking beans, there is no doctrinaire approach to having to soak beans, and there is a tolerance, with warnings, about using a pressure cooker to cook beans, as the sine qua non of bean cookery is like barbecue, `low and slow'. The only hint of elitism I detected was the statement that somehow, the Italians have mastered a secret to a tasty cooking of beans which is beyond we poor New World neophytes who have been cooking beans for less than 400 years. I will concede that the knowledge of good bean cooking is probably a bit harder to find outside of Boston, but I think we have the hang of it.

One of the most liberating revelations was the fact that Italians actually cook a lot with dried beans imported from the New World, as North America exports much more than it consumes, and Italy consumes all it produces, so no dried Italian beans sit on the grocery shelves beyond a year of harvest, especially as date of production is stamped on the bean packages just as we do for bread and milk.

While my hero, Alton Brown has remarked that bean cooking is remarkably uniform, far more consistent across species than with grains, he certainly did not take into account the variety of beans covered by this book, which deals with at least fifteen (15) different species of beans, some of which have no substitutes if the real thing is not available. Fortunately, the unique varieties of beans, the chickpea and the fava are commonly available in the United States. Every other type of bean has more than one commonly available substitution, which is important since there are some beans which are available only in Italy and which do not travel well.

The recipes are organized in exactly the way one would expect from an Italian cookery subject, with chapters on:

Primi Piatti, divided into sections on Antipasti, Insalate, and Contorni (Side Dishes)
Zuppa di Fagioli, divided into sections on Minestre, Zuppe (Thick Soups), and Passali (Creamy Soups)
Pasta e Fagioli, of course
Secondi Piatti, divided into Fagioli e Farinacci (Grains), Fagioli con Carne (Meat), Fagioli con Selvaggina (Poultry), and Fagioli con Pesce (Seafood)

I have never, up until today, been quite clear on the difference between Minestre and Zuppa. I always thought of Minestre as a relatively thick soup, especially as prepared in Florence, for example, but the Tuscan bean soup recipe trumps all visions of soupy thickness by including six different varieties of beans.

This division of recipes does not mean there is no seafood in the salads or antipasti. In fact, the salads include tuna, shrimp, and octopus as co-conspirators in the salad recipes.

This book gives an excellent discussion of non-bean ingredients for its size and does the especially good service of telling us where we can get these ingredients at the same place where their use is discussed. This may not be the best arrangement when we pick up the book later as a reference, but it gives a very good sense of how easy or how hard it is to get some of these things such as bottarga, guanciale, and porcinis.

One could argue that if you have a library full of books by Marcella Hazan, Lydia Bastianich, and a platoon of other Italian cooking writers, what do you need with this book? My first answer is that unlike most general works written for Americans, it tells you what kind of beans are actually used in these recipes. Next, like every special subject book, it is simply a lot easier to find a recipe to fit your need for beans than rummaging through the index of six other books.

As expected from a professional cookbook writer, all the recipes are exceptionally well written and there is a delightful variety in the selection. I cannot guarantee that this book will remove the pasty flavor of beans from your preparations (especially since we have no way of knowing how old our dried beans are), but it will make every effort to do so. The rest is up to you.

Very pleasant, very informative, and very tasty read. Recommended.

Book Description

43 carefully designed color-coded charts depict bizarre mythical creatures that abound in Celtic art. Complete instructions and easy-to-follow diagrams enable even beginning needlecrafters to create a wealth of fabulous patterns that will embellish clothing, linens, and other domestic items.

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Advanced embroidery.......2006-03-30

This book is for those that understand stitchery with ease. The designs are really good to use with anything, even making bookmarks. This book is for the advanced cross stitcher, or embroiderer.

Mixed Reviews.......2002-10-02

I like the designs, but the total black and white with tiny blocks makes the patterns hard to read. The designs are good, but lacking in color, so if you feel like playing around with them a bit, this is a great book - especially considering the price. Otherwise, I'd probably recommend staying away from it and going with a more expensive, though much more readable and more colorful alternative.

Great book; great price.......2001-09-15

WOW! For the price this book is absolutely wonderful. All the patterns are in black & white, but it's still just as useful as most of the $...-$... celtic cross-stitch books.

A worth while purchase.......2001-09-03

This book has many different designs available. The designs can be a bit small, and a bit difficult to read. I highly recommend taking these charts and enlarging them before starting work on them. There are a great variety in designs, some will take a while to complete, while others can be completed in much less time.

Very good, but not great...........2000-07-02

If you're a true fan of Celtic art, you'll probably enjoy these patterns, but be warned; these will not appeal to everyone. Some of the patterns are outstanding in their design; others are just dull. While the interesting patterns out-number the boring ones, the color choices are bland (unless you really LOVE earth tones) and some of the charts are made up of too few stitches to represent the original designs. Still, if these things don't bother you, I strongly recommend this title.

Celtic Charted Designs (Dover Needlework Series)

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Over 350 Celtic charted designs: endless possibilities
Advanced embroidery
Multipurpose designs
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Excellent designs

Celtic Charted Designs (Dover Needlework Series)
Co Spinhoven
Manufacturer: Dover Publications
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0486254119

Book Description

Over 300 lovely designs from Book of Kells, Tara Brooch, other authentic Celtic sources: spiral work, knot work, biomorphic patterns, more.

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Over 350 Celtic charted designs: endless possibilities.......2007-04-19

This compact book contains over 350 charted designs. While I primarily work these designs as counted cross stitch, they could be incorporated into a range of handcrafts.

As commented by others, the charts are small and many of us would need to magnify charts for ease of use.

From a personal perspective, I find that photocopying the chart at around 150% also provides me with a working copy I can write on in terms of yarn colour choices.

Recommended to those who love Celtic and Celtic inspired designs and can see a range of possible applications.

Jennifer Cameron-Smith

Advanced embroidery.......2006-03-30

If you are an expert stitcher this book is easy to follow. Makes great designs for those that enjoy puzzle artwork.

Multipurpose designs.......2005-04-07

While I have heard complaints that this book is in black and white, I find that to be an advantage. I find colored charts are sometimes distracting, especially if you are trying to use the charted design for something like filet crochet. I love the variety of the designs and how one design leads to the evolution of another. Highly recommend this book for any type of celtic design work!!

Mixed Review Again for Dover Needleworks.......2002-10-02

I have purchased both Celtic design books from Dover. Good designs, but the lack of color in the designs and the hard to read black and white charts are a hindrance. The one thing they really have going for them is that it's just hard to find other designs like these in color. So for the price, you can always enlarge these charts and play around with the color on your own.

Excellent designs.......2001-07-21

This book has many excellent designs. As an avid cross stitcher I love to pick up books. This book has many, and I do mean many designs with over 100 to its credit. The designs are flexible enough that they can make pictures, pillows, or a special addition to a favor. One draw back, be prepared to go to a copy shop and blow up the designs, they can be very small. I give it 5 stars despite this major draw back. The quantity of designs, the quality of the designs, and the fantastic price, well they can't be matched.

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Plant Health Care for Woody Ornamentals: A Professional's Guide to Preventing & Managing Environmental Stresses & Pests

Manufacturer: University of Illinois, Office of Agricultura
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1883097177

Book Description

Early adolescence is the term professionals use to describe the time of life between 11 and 14 years of age. It is also called the time of "Great Transitions," when young teens experience rapid and profound changes in the way they look, think and act. Their swift growth and desire to rush ahead and do things on their own can result in tension within the family, and is often difficult for parents to understand and cope with. A Parent's Guide to the Teen Years is a timely resource that guides parents through this exhilarating yet rocky period of their child's life. It helps parents to redefine and adapt their roles to both nurture their teen and maintain their own sanity. Parents will find helpful and insightful guidance on such topics as maintaining respect, encouraging dialogue, anticipating change, and the importance of parental involvement and communication with their pre-teen. Chapters include: All in the Family 90s Style: Living with Your 11-to 14-Year-Old; The Invasion of the Body Snatchers: Physical Changes; and Their Circle of Friends: Peers.

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Excellent Book to Read.......2002-01-08

Topics in this book includes
How Involved Should I be in my Teen's Day-to-Day Life?
How Can I Protect Out Time Together as a Family?
Why Has Food Become Such an Issue for my Teenager?
Why are Friends so Important to Young Teens?
How Can I Influence My Teen's Choice of Friends?
What Do I Need to Know about Peer Pressure
How Can I Help my Teen be Successful in School?

This book gives you infomation about what to expect about your teen's physical, intellectual, emotional, and social development. The book gives down-to-earth guidelines about what parents can do to help their adolescent and themselves through this period

A great practical guide.......2000-12-07

This book contains very practical and useful information. It provided useful insight with an entertaining touch of humour. A must have reference guide for those of us parents heading into new territory with a child entering the teen years.

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Citizen Koch: An Autobiography
Ed Koch
Manufacturer: St Martins Mass Market Paper
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0312950985

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Citizen Koch : An Autobiography
Edward Irving; Paisner, Daniel Koch
Manufacturer: St. Martin's Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000OPGCTY

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Citizen Koch: An Autobiography
Ed Koch
Manufacturer: St Martins Mass Market Paper
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OTH0BO

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Citizen Koch: An Autobiography
Ed; Paisner, Daniel; Koch, Edward I. Koch
Manufacturer: St Martins Pr
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OT366M

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Classic(review by Jakob).......2006-05-22

When reading this booki was amazed that so few would do so much for so many,Ive never heard of a story like it. What suprised me even more was that the man who saved all those Jews was a Japanese, if i remember correctly where an axis power during WW2 and allied with the Germans. This man must have really followed his heart if he was to defy his own country, and for that i really admire him

Classic(review by Jakob).......2006-05-22

Sharing a positive side of the Holocaust with young readers.......2005-05-06

I used this book as an introduction to the Holocaust for my 7-year-old. Rather than starting him off on the atrocities, I used this well-written and beautiful book to start him off with learning that we Jews were once in grave danger, and there were some people who took care of us when they could, even though it was a difficult choice.

3/4 of the way through reading the book out loud to my son, I started to cry a little. The story is poignant, of course, but more than that, the writing captures the meaning in such a simple and straight-forward way.

I would recommend this book to anybody, Jewish or not Jewish. It is an excellent introduction to the concept that life can be dangerous, along with the idea that good people exist, AND that any one of us can choose to be a person who makes a difference.

The writing makes it clear that Sugihara was risking his and his family's lives to do the right thing. And, the writing makes it clear that being the child of someone who is willing to do the right thing can be difficult, but well worth it.

A beautiful book.

Heroic tale.......2005-05-02

Chiune Sugihara was a Japanese diplomat in Lithuania in 1940. As the Germans invaded Poland, thousands of refugees flooded into Lithuania begging for visas that would allow them to travel to safety. Despite repeated orders from his government, Sugihara signed travel visas around the clock and saved thousands of Jewish lives. He followed his conscience knowing full well the social and professional consequences that would follow. The drama of the events and the courage of Sugihara and his family make this true story unforgettable. Dom Lee's sepia tone illustrations complement the story and convey the desperation and fear of the refugees and the bravery of the Sugihara family.

Each of us can make a difference.......2004-05-25

This is such a powerful little book. I used it with my sixth grade class as part of a unit on Japanese internment camps with the books Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and Under the Blood Red Sun by Graham Salisbury. While these books are excellent at helping students to understand what happened to Japanese Americans during World War II, it wasn't until I read them Passage to Freedom that the students began to more fully understand that they could take a stand as individuals to stop prejudice. Each of us, if we are brave enough, has the power to make a difference. Chiune Sugihara was brave, and he was determined to do what he knew in his heart was right. Because of him, thousands of Jews escaped from certain death. This book is priceless.

Pasaje a La Libertad / Passage to Freedom: La Historia De Chiune Sugihara / The True Story of Chiune Sugihara, the "Japanese Schindler"

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Outstanding!

Pasaje a La Libertad / Passage to Freedom: La Historia De Chiune Sugihara / The True Story of Chiune Sugihara, the "Japanese Schindler"
Ken Mochizuki
Manufacturer: Lee & Low Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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Book Description

Pasaje a la Libertab is the Spanish edition of Passage to Freedom, the true story of the "Japanese Schindler" who saved thousands of Jews during World War II. In 1940, five-year-old Hiroki Sugihara, the son of the Japanese consul to Lithuania, saw from the consulate window hundreds of Jewish refugees. They had come to Hiroki's father with a desperate request: Could he write visas for them to escape the Nazi threat? When the Japanese government denied his requests, Hiroki's father turned to his family. This story chronicles their amazing act of humanity.

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Outstanding!.......2000-04-05

This is the Spanish version of Passage to Freedom, a 30-page picture book. A remarkable and inspiring story of a Japanese diplomat who disobeyed his government by writing hundreds of visas to Jewish refugees trying to flee Lithuania. With compassion and courage, Sugihara places his own future in jeopardy to save others. Excellent! Don't miss the afterward to see what happened to the Sugihara family.

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Passage to Freedom The Sugihara Story
Ken Mochizuki
Manufacturer: Lee & Low Books, Incorporated
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000NY5SVY

Passage to Freedom: The Sugihara Story.(Children's Review)(Brief Article): An article from: The Horn Book Magazine

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Passage to Freedom: The Sugihara Story.(Children's Review)(Brief Article): An article from: The Horn Book Magazine
Hanna B. Zeiger
Manufacturer: Horn Book, Inc.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital

Book Description

This digital document is an article from The Horn Book Magazine, published by Horn Book, Inc. on November 1, 1997. The length of the article is 356 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Passage to Freedom: The Sugihara Story.(Children's Review)(Brief Article)
Author: Hanna B. Zeiger
Publication: The Horn Book Magazine (Magazine/Journal)
Date: November 1, 1997
Publisher: Horn Book, Inc.
Volume: v73 Issue: n6 Page: p698(2)

Article Type: Book Review, Children's Review, Brief Article

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Passage To Freedom the Sugihara Story
Ken Mochizuki
Manufacturer: TROLL COMMUNICATIONS+
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000UCDIFM

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