For a solid page-turner and escape from your daily cares, read Scott-Turner's adventurous love story, "Swordplay." It captures your imagination immediately, introducing you to heroine, Ardys Trevallon -- not your typical 16th century lady. The Queen's court is her playground, fencing her unladylike vocation. Though thoroughly enchanting and beautiful, Ardys asserts herself (often with the strength of a man) and her place in the scheme of things. She's definitely a woman, born well before her time.
Ardy's capture by the rogue, handsome pirate -- Desmond Kirkconnell -- during the most vulnerable time in her life, plunges the reader into a series of events that proves Ardys resolve and tenacity. Falling in love with Kirkconnell, being kidnapped by his enemy, and a succession of misunderstandings, impel the reader along Ardys' journey from the Queen's castle, Ireland's forests and even a Caribbean island. Ignoring her true feelings, Ardys uses her body to accomplish her resolve.
Politics and intrigue catapult Ardy's into a quest that brings full circle her love story. Though the book satisfied this reader to the very last moment. I want to hear more of Ardys and her adventures with the love of her life.

An exciting,romantic swashbuckler with lots of suspense and great characters. The background detail and historical information show a lot research on the author's part and play a big role in the atmosphere set in the novel. It's right up there with another old favorite 'Jamaica Inn'. A must read for romantic period piece devotees.

As a first-semester freshman this spring, I was very nervous that I'd be way behind all my peers, so I bought this book to help me with my first papers, and I'm very glad I did. It has just the right amount of information to help and inspire you (with student quotes, too), and it really makes you feel that you can take on any writing assignment. I definitely recommend it!

As a college freshman, I didn't know how hard and important writing papers would be. After I got a pretty low grade on my first paper, I found this book and it's filled with some great advice, a bunch of useful student quotes, and it's written in a very easy tone. If you need some help or inspiration for writing your college papers, I definitely recommend this book - and it's not only for your first paper!

I've owned this book in one form or another since the book came out in the seventies. There were many people out there who were interested in moving away from can opener cookery, but were intimidated by the average 'hippie' cookbook. Mrs. Lewis, through her clear, excellent narrative and precise recipes, reminded many in the cities and suburbs of just how good fresh ingredients, prepared simply and with love, can elevate the eating experience to the sublime.

This is one of those special books combining two of my main reading interests: American history and cooking. Ms. Lewis has the book divided into chapters like meals; e.g. breakfasts, lunches and dinners, all occurring within the major season subheads. This makes perfect sense after you read the book and understand her emphasis on eating by the season. All Americans used to do this, but with modern transportation and food preservation, it doesn't exist anymore.

Over the past twenty-five years I think I've made just about every recipe in the book, and all of them can be recommended. I am a fan of Southern cooking and hers is certainly authentic.

That this book is still available is testament to its worth. It still makes for excellent reading and cooking, twenty-five years on.

This book is a living document, a standard that should be on any American cookbook collection. Edna's style of writing can bring on tears of joy as she shares how life was for the citzens of Freetown. One the greatest strenghts of this book is the historical documentation of a rural town founded by freed slaves. I've cooked almost everything out of this book and found the receipes are acurate and down right beautiful! If you're a fan of Alice Water's Chez Panisse style, this book will not dissappoint. Edna uses the best of each season in her cooking style. This is true American food at its finest! The only people that might be dissappointed with this book would be vegans, this book deals with rural farming culture.

This book truly covers many different ways to train your dog, disabled or not. Easy to read and understand too!

This book is invaluable if you have a disability, and want to train your own dog in basic obedience. Stew and Lydia explain how to train a dog if you are in a wheelchair, or use crutches.

Even if you have no movement of your limbs, you can train your dog, with equipment that you can get built or buy.

This book is invaluable for anyone who is disabled, and wants to train their own dog.

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I'v e been to the bookstores and have seen a lot of your books and find the characters to be believable and empathetic. Young people seem to really enjoy your style and ability to create surprise, mystery and excite, all the while weaving very grounded principles and morals to the stories.

Great Work!!!!!!

Steven.

In paper back form, this is the second half of the Dinoverse Hardcover book. Which of course means that it is absolutely wonderful. Aside from a great story, the art by Fredericks is a great visual commentary.

As dense as it is deep, Bukatman's work is essential reading for anyone with a serious interest in science fiction, postmodern theory, or the relationship between technology and human culture. The glowing reviews by Bruce Sterling and Larry McCaffery were well-deserved, and this book will have a permanent place on my bookshelf (right next to Storming the Reality Studio). I had never heard of Scott Bukatman before finding this book, but I now look forward to reading anything he writes in the future.

One of _the_ important books for anyone interested in Science Fiction's engagement with cultural issues. I've yet to find someone who had done any important work at the time of the books' publication who isn't in there somewhere. It's been called "interminable identity" by some but that's just because people don't have the patience to wade through the good stuff. an Important Book..

I bought this book for my girlfriend and we both found it hysterical. Out of all the items listed in the book to make me "useful", she's got me doing about a dozen of them on a routine basis.

I thoroughly enjoyed this book. You will laugh for hours after reading this.

My fourth grade daughter struggles to "look up" words in a dictionary. The small print and cluttered format frustrated her to tears. Then we stumbled upon this treasure. The clean typeface, blue colored entry words, and generous use of white space, made this dictionary easy to use. We gave a copy to the LD classroom teacher at her school. The teacher was thrilled - students find this dictionary much more "user friendly" than those provide by the school.

My fourth grade daughter struggled to "look up" words. Dictionaries she could use often didn't contain the words she needed. Others were so visually confusing she would give up in frustration. Then we stumbled upon this treasure. With a clean type face, contrasting color for entry words, and intellegent use of white space, she could finally find the word she needed by herself. We donated a copy to the LD classroom at her school. The teacher was thrilled - none of the dictionaries provided by the school were as "user friendly"!

This is a great source if you want to know where any dead musicians are buried. Jammed packed with interesting tidbits regarding the artists life and death. I can't wait for the upcoming new editions in this series.

Several years ago, my daughter and I went searching for Jimi Hendricks grave while we had some time to kill in Seattle waiting for a plane. I had discovered the name of the cemetery in a book I had read, but it still took us about an hour poking around before we found the actual grave. We left a couple of coins and a note that just said "Thanks Jimi". The experience was quite incredible. We both walked away feeling we had done something worthwhile. We had given something back to the music, and to the memory of a great musician. I was hooked. Since then I have made a point of looking for the graves of people who have left their mark on our culture. Last year I had two major disappointments. I spent a couple of hours early one Sunday morning searching in vain for the grave of Muddy Waters in a suburban Chicago cemetery. A few weeks ago, I spent another two hours in a cemetery in L.A. looking for Frank Zappa and Roy Orbison without success. Two nights ago Amazon.com delivered me Scott Stanton's "The Tombstone Tourist". Within ten minutes, the book had paid for itself. I discovered where all three were precisely located, and why I was unable to find Frank and Roy. They are both buried in unmarked graves, about twenty five feet apart. The book is very tastefully written. It is obvious that Scott has a great deal of respect for all the artists he has taken considerable effort to find. There are excellent bios and an incredible wealth of information and trivia on each of the hundreds of artists presented. The only error I have found is that Chet Baker died in a fall from a Paris hotel room. Actually it was Amsterdam. Close enough. I have not found a better reference book on popular culture than "The Tombstone Tourist". Those of you who feel that looking for dead celebrities is a little macabre should get the book and go out to find someone whose work you admire. You will find it a tremendously rewarding experience. Don't forget to take flowers, or an appropriate gift to leave at the grave.

I rec'd this book as part of a 5-day course that I took for my job in new product development. The book and course are excellent. They make the problem solving process understandable by giving you a common language and set of tools. The book/course also gives you criteria to select what tools to use for the outcome that you need. The book/course provides templates for doing various types of generating activities and various types of focusing activities depending on whether you need an adaptive or innovative solution. It was definitely one of the best creativity/problem solving sessions I've ever taken part in.

The toolbox for Creative Problem Solving is a well-crafted, and nicely presented set of idea generating and idea focusing tools and techniques that have earned their way into my toolbox. These handy templates help me avoid costly mistakes and obtain the highest quality results every time I use them"

Robert J.Firenze Director - ILMC, Center for Manufacturing & Service Excellence