I found the book a touching and beautiful archive to the passion and history that has made Ducati the global success that it is today. The book is neither a technical book nor a minute chronology of the motorcycle's every intricacy, but a marvelous coffee table book tat can be picked up by Ducatisti and non enthusiasts alike, even if you just pick out your date of birth or the year you started college etc. The archive photographs suppied by Motociclismo are exquisite and the quality of the print and ease of design make for a book which is truly a delight to behold. I am sure that the cover alone would sell as a photographic print in its own right. For a trip down yesterday, today and tommorrow's roads, it cannot be beaten.

This is by far the best book I've seen on Ducati history. Being a Ducati enthusiast, I found it very interesting. I can see that it would be very helpful to anyone restoring a classic Ducati. It is full of beautiful photographs and acurate information.

I love this book because it made me laugh out loud! This gem of a book provides a gentle, self-deprecating portrait of the predictaments and perplexities of retired life as experienced by a once-powerful business executive who now must contend among other things with the challenge of ironing his own shirts! A fun read.. and a wonderful gift for the newly retired.

Ever experienced a total change in life that needed to be accompanied with humor? This is a book that looks at retirement as a fun switch from the hurried singlemindedness of a career. From cleaning the porch to piano lessons Mr Hawley lets us feel how nice it is to settle into new yet everyday lessons in life. These short stories add a new appreciation for the simple things in life.

An amazing book full of superior examples of penmanship, fine mark making through to highly skilled illustrative works. If you are not a reader who likes wading through text, the examples themselves stand alone for their sheer beauty and skill - excellent as exemplars to improve your own lettering works, or just to open your eyes to the broad variety of styles, skills and individuality of the best known penman of the era. I study the examples regularly and recommend this book to my own students as an excellent reference work.

While the graphics inspire and educate on the quality one desires to achieve, the well constructed text in the book transports us back to an era when lettering was a part of everyday life - where schools in penmanship taught learners in a rigorous and hectic schedule with drills and practice and more practice - lives so dedicated to their artform that we can only imagine what it was like today.

This book will delightfully inform and educate you about this wonderful time in American calligraphy through the carefully woven stories of the lives of these Master Penman. It fills a gap with information and samples that had previously only been available to those who spend a lifetime studying the history of penmanship.

A book to be in every calligraphers and historians library (and even those who just love a delightful read out of interest) and well worth the cost - even with the poor exchange rate in Australia! Don't miss it!

As someone who takes both the art and history of American calligraphy very serious I was speechless when I first saw this book! In fact, the importance of this book in helping to document a portion of the rich, but almost forgotten, calligraphic heritage of the United States cannot be overstated. 'An Elegant Hand' represents this history from the perspective of one of the great Master Penman of the past, WC Henning. Henning was intimately involved with masters such Louis Madarasz, AN Palmer, WE Dennis and FB Courtney. All of whom are represented in the book as well as many others. The book is a delightful read and very accessible to even the novice calligrapher/pen art enthusiast. Furthermore, it is literally jam packed with art containing specimen after specimen from past masters that will serve as a source of study for calligraphers of any level. I consider it a MUST HAVE for anyone interested in calligraphy.

I am a preschool teacher and have used this book with many 3-5 year old students with great success. It is very entertaining to children which helps them attend long enough to learn. I myself don't mind hearing it over and over again! I bought this book several years ago and it got lost. I have been searching for this book in book stores and am glad that I finally found another one !

Elmo and the Baby Animals is a wonderful way to introduce children to the names of animals and their children. It is also a great way to introduce kids to books on cassette, as kids get to listen to Elmo's voice on tape and turn the page when they hear the sound. Kids love Elmo and they get to learn about farm animals and there are some fun jokes. My son reads the book over and over, and enjoys listening to the tape with or without the book. You'll enjoy it! And then visit a farm afterward!

This children's book continues the story begun with STAR WARS. Like the previous title in the series, the book compacts most of the important plot elements of the movie in fairly easy to read language that children can understand. It also contains pictures from the movie to accompany the text. My only complaint about the book, it doesn't illustrate or discuss the scene with the asteroid monster. Good read for kids who like STAR WARS.

Well, I'm just writing here because nobody else seems to have come here. Mainly because everybody that's read any Star Wars books at all has seen the original trilogy on video, so why bother with reading the story? Well, the books are always so much better than movies because you can tell what people are thinking without those echo-sounding voices or a narrator. I think this is, of course, a VERY good book. I love the way Han and Leia fall in love. That part where Han gets frozen in carbonite will have sort of sensitive people balling. See, even before the Star Wars fad, the movies were popular in our home. So, I am not a new Star Wars fan. (In other words, I like SW, and I know what I'm talking about.) Very good book.

I cannot say enough good things about this book. The pace of the rhymes give it a very whimsical beat that babies love. The pictures are bright and colorful. Lots of parent/baby interaction can occur while reading the book because there are plenty of things to point at while reading. The book familiarizes or reinforces (depending on the stage of your baby)different sites and senses. I started reading my twins this book when they were 9 months and they are now 20 months and they still love it. As a parent, you won't tire of reading this book, either...because you will be reading it ALOT.

BUY THIS BOOK! IT'S A WINNER!

Nice sharp colorful pictures. Lots to spend time on if you want -- plenty of things to talk about on each page. (Or you can rush through it and keep starting over if your child just likes the rhymes and the page-turning.) The text is all about noticing smells -- pie, laundry, outdoors.... A short book, and very sturdy.

I have sampled many cookbooks, vegetarian and omnivore, and this is one of my all time favorites. Many vegetarian cookbooks contain recipes that are either endlessly time consuming, or simply produce a bland final product, or even worse, both. This cookbook harbors recipes that are mostly quick to prepare and are all spectacularly tasty; these dishes have become staples in my repertoire. I have prepared about half of the recipes in this book, and not one has proven a dud. The pictures are lovely to look at; the prose is what one would hear from a friend explaining the background of a recipe and how to best prepare it. I have given this cookbook to almost all of my friends, in California and outside of it, and it has been an enormous hit. If you like to cook, buy this book.

I've tried only about 10% of the recipes in this book, and all have astounded me and my lucky guests. My favorites have been the Sopa de Tortilla, the Sonoma Salad of Spinach, Carmelized Pecans and Warmed Goat Cheese, and the Grapefruit and Tequila Sorbet.

I can remember pouring over the pictures in this book,using my book light,long after the final lights out call from my parents. I traveled back in time, imagining dinosaur growls and prehistoric seashells. By day, I would wander the acreage on my Grandma's farm, scouring the weedy earth for the slightest hint of ancient rock or dinosaur footprint. I wanted my school-age children to enjoy the imaginative art of archeology and paleantology and immediately remembered my favorite book, Fossils: A Guide to Prehistoric Life. I was delighted to see that it was still in print with the same exciting drawings. I immediatley ordered my copy! I then decided to order a copy for my kids! This is a great book that will encourage your children to look beyond the video games and satellite channels and into the fascinating world of the ancient past.

This little guide is the best choice for beginners and children. Book gives the reader an idea about what a fossil is, where and how they can be found, and some information about major fossils. All the pictures are hand drawn illustrations, so that they are not very detailed but still OK for kids and beginers. (I liked it when I was young!)

Looking at disease as a function of dominant discourses should be viewed as a positive thing. "Framing Disease" opens up a new space of analysis to physicians. Up to now, we were reacting to traditional research and conclusion unaware of our role in this interplay. This book takes us an important step back to examine how we do things and to take another step back from there. It is one thing to be self aware and even better to be aware of such awareness. As much as traditional research methods have been helpful, they are inherently limited and are holding us back. This book does not discredit what has gone on before but rather that the answers we have come up with are not the only answers. Perhaps we can move forward, acting on this new awareness that we are human and subject to human frailties. We should be grateful for Rosenberg and Golden and re-ask the question, What is a disease?

Miguel Llora

Charles Rosenberg states in his introduction to this collection of essays "In some ways disease does not exist until we have agreed that it does, by perceiving, naming, and responding to it." What follows are 14 separate accounts of this process of negotiation in naming and responding to disease and the ever-shifting boundaries of the notion of disease.

This book should be required reading for anyone involved in the healing arts be they physicians, nurse, medical social worker, shaman or lay healer. It should also be read by anyone who has to deal with these people on a regular basis.

Reading these essays makes it very clear that there is not Grand Narrative of dieseas, no solid ground of meaning. Physicians and other healers often act as the Keepers of Meaning in naming our conditions and interpreting it for us. But there are many forces at work involving such things as ecomnomics, social role, public policy, entitlement. I am reminded of a recent new story where parents in posh neighborhoods now go shopping for "diseases" for their children so they can be entitled to advantages on the SAT and therefore have even more ready access to the better colleges. Here the physician enters into collusion with the affluent patient to use "disease" as a means to shore up and assure social status.

Framing Disease though presents more earnest and honest efforts to catalogue our experience of illness.

My group of friends, who had all travelled Greece in our backpacking days, benefited greatly from this book. As our trip in July 2002 progressed, we relied more and more heavily on the book. The recommendations from sites to food to hotels proved to be excellent every time. I particularly liked that the lodging and restaurant recommendations had inexpensive through expensive listings, which we used as our budget-mindedness changed during the trip. For anyone beyond backpacking and Lonely Planet, this book is a must.

I found this book very useful. I used it mostly as a guide on a walking tour of Athens. I only had three days in Athens and wanted to see as much as possible. I spent a few hours browsing through the pertinent section and made my plan of action. Everything was as described. I also referred to it when making my hotel reservation and when looking for good restaurants. I stayed at the Hotel Philippos near the Acropolis - a great little place. Eating I went through great troubles one night to find the Taverna Sigalas in the Monasteraki area (because of subway construction,) but it was well worth the effort. I still drool at the thought of the wonderful Greek salad I had and the very best moussaka I've ever eaten. Going to Rome this year and I plan to buy a Frommer's for Rome because I only have three days there and I know I can depend on this book.