Another outstanding book compiled by Napa Valley author Leslie Mansfield (her husband is winemaker at Bradford Mountain). She takes recipes from wineries throughout Northern California and puts them in to nifty themed books. This one - Barbecue Dishes, is just one of the newest series of three books that includes Picnics and Vegetarian Dishes. The recipes are easy to read and execute and there is wine pairings reccomended with each dish. Also has a little background about each winery. Check some of the other books Leslie has produced and you won't be dissapointed.

Any recorder player will enjoy and learn from this book.

I have been playing the alto recorder for a year now. This book taught me a great deal about the instrument. What's even better,
the book carefully introduces the repertory and where to find and read about it.I am delighted to learn that I will never run out of material to play.

The book is written with care, verve, and love. However, the reader is assumed to have considerable knowledge, to know without explanation, for instance, the implications of wide windways and bores, and narrow windways (p178). The history of the 20th century recorder revival, of great interest to contemporary enthusiasts, is brushed off twice, as "described and discussed in several publications." Fine, then why not this one? This should have been dealt with more carefully. The illustrations are very poorly reproduced. I am still suffering from eyestrain from trying to find the recorder in Plate 27.

Overall, though, this is a book any recorder player will want.

I eagerly waited for this box set to arrive and when it did, I listened to all four audiobook productions back to back. The productions themselves were excellent and the narrators captured the essence of the period in question. Naxos audiobooks is one of my favorite audio producers and I intend to buy as much of their line as possible. Now onto Jane Austen. I think Jane Austen falls under the category of writers which either you love or hate. On the surface taken each work on the whole, it would appear this woman has nothing to say. All her books revolve around marriage and it seems that she spends 3 to 4 hundred pages trying to pair a man and a woman up. Her strong points of course is in her style. Northanger Abbey did cause me to laugh out loud at certain points and how can you not notice the fiery wit of Emma? She also has a good grasp of character development and knows how to set the mood. Yet in both Northanger Abbey and Emma nothing much happens, one keeps hoping for a scandle a murder or theft. We simply have this charming girl, rich and good looking running around the country side gossiping and not doing much else. In Northanger Abbey Catherine appears as a complete dullard in some cases. its like I'm nothing without a man. Waht I found amusing was the slight but apparent condesention towards Catherine by those around her. The woman was such an air head she didn't even notice it. My favorite of the three novels included in this box set was Mansfield park; here surprise surprise, something actually happens, something more then gossip and flirting goes on and Austen tackles more themes here then in the previous two other novels. I have to say however for the record, i can't stand Fanny Price and simply adore mary Crawford. Of course the two Burtrom girls are delicious as well. It would have been nice to see Mary however have a little fun with Tom or Edward. The ending to Mansfield Park had to be a bit of a shocker for those polite days and I think Mary Crawford is the liberated feminist in the book even though Jane Austen wasn't exactly aiming for that. Now the biography. It was okay, but at times it read like a long list of wedding and birth announcements not to mention obituaries as well. the biography to be frank talks more about the Austen family then about the writer herself. Personally this is due to the fact, that Ms. Jane Austen lead a rather dull existance. Her days were filled with writing, corresponding with family and friends and travelling from one house to another. It was disappointing in fact that the biography gave no insight to what triggered Austen's imagination. Nor where any of the novels analyzed. One interesting fact is that Jane Austen herself though wrote about love and marriage and was surrounded by family who kept getting married, she herself never did, nor was she ever touched by a man. In a way I guess this explains why her lead female characters are such prudes at times.

Having said the above, I did enjoy this box set very much and plan to purchase the second one which comes out this fall and contains her other three novels plus a novel called Lady Susan which I think she never finished. heres to Amazon who was the first to make the second box set available for pre order. on the whole I would recommend this box set if you love to listen to audiobooks and especially classics. Its beautiful and a keep sake for years to come. Bravo to Naxos. As for Jane austen I think she was talented, but I consider George Eliot a far better writer then her.

Elizabeth Mansfield's regencies are usually enjoyable and this one is no exception. Camilla, Countess of Wyckfield lives with her late husband's family until she tires of her sister-in-laws sermons. My favourite character in the book is Pippa, Camilla's daughter, who befriends Thomas one of the footmen.

As usual, Branley has presented science in a clear and very readable format. However, Day Light, Night Light has a limited content scope--natural and man-made sources of light and seeing objects from reflected light. Other books in this "Let's read and find out science" series have a much broader usability because of the excellent content which stretches their appropriateness higher than the reading level of the text. I often look for books by Branley and others in this series for my curriculum development work.

According to the price and the approach, it is a good choice. The tools available in CD are great. If you already know VB but just want to have a clear idea on ActiveX, this is definitely a good book for you. The book has a great look.

This is a very good beginning book on the subject for children. It begins with scientific information about how earthquakes occur, and then goes through what may happen during an earthquake, such as buildings falling down, fires, gas leaks, etc. It goes into further particulars, such as how it feels to be in an earthquake, and what safety measures to take.

The illustrations are very simple, and not especially appealing, but they do help illustrate the points well.

All in all, a good book for children ages 8 -12 who live in earthquake prone areas, especially.

Since I'm already an avid fan of the Busy People series, finding & buying this book was/is a BIG relief off my constantly going mind. As with most of today's world, I too don't have much time to attend a class on how to use the application, nor do I want to flip thru those MANY user guides that it comes with. Besides which, in my line of work, spreadsheets are needed constantly, my employer dropped Excel in my lap & basically said, "Give me..."

I found navigating thru the book fairly easy (if I wanted to go over a specific function, or just a quick review of the whole section) & the mini hahas are just right in keeping my attention span. Both geniouses, and not the geniouses (like me) can learn & grow at our own speeds.

I would recommend this book for people that need to know...yesterday...but just can't find the time.

The book was about astronauts orbiting in out space. It gives details of what they do when they have to eat, go to the bathroom, etc. It also explains about gravity and how the astronauts deal with gravity issues while they are in space. The book talks about how the space shuttle takes off and lands and how jobs would be done while on board.
I liked this book because it teaches children about things that happen in outer space in ways that they can easily understand. It had great Pictures that illustrated the materials that astronauts would use while they were in space and it also showed certain techniques that they would use to do tasks while on the space shuttle.
I think with this book the author was really trying to illustrate the ways things happen while astronauts are in orbit. He was trying to write and illustrate all the things that happen so that kids can understand it. The author tries to create a book were the children really feel like they are going into space and what that would be like.

This is one of my favorite Mansfield books. It is sweet and funny. The secondary characters are well-developed and you really feel like you become part of the house party that is described. The romance never goes deeper than kisses, so if you are looking for sensual romance, this isn't the book for you, but if you like romances that don't make you blush, this is for you. I especially liked the way the characters discovered things about themselves that they didn't really want to face up to, and how it made them mature. The description of the frost fair on the Thames was very interesting. This is a light-hearted "keeper" for my shelf--definitely a
"feel-good" read, a comfort food like mac and cheese. Great for warming up a cold winter day!