This little book contains six precut designs of fish on sturdy paper. Each fish is made with a few parts, suitable for use in all kinds of crafts. I used these designs (along with the "Sea Creatures" book from the same series) to etch fish onto a bathroom mirror. (I traced them onto contact paper first and cut them out.) But there's only about a thousand other things you can do with them. I'm going to make a giant poster with all the sea creatures and fish stencils, next. These little books are indeed fun. This one contains an angelfish, a salmon, a goldfish, a flounder, a swordfish, and a shark.

My kids love these little books with magically appearing pictures. I prefer these to the "invisible marker" books because all you need is a pencil. The topics are for fairly young children, probably not over age 6. I broke up the set to use as incentives for my young piano students.

There are six sturdy pre-cut stencils in this little book from Dover. The dinosaurs are clearly labeled, and the perfect size for lots of projects. They're handy for painting dinosaurs on bookcases or cupboards, for making posters and feltboards, for decorating t-shirts and mirrors. The dinosaurs in this book include a great stegosaurus, a neat dimetrodon, and a stylish triceratops, as well as a tyrannosaurus, a flying rhamphorynchus, and a stately diplodocus.

This sturdy little book has six different precut shell stencils. They're all printed on durable, easy-to-remove, pages. I used them to cut out shapes from pre-flattened sponges, and to make templates with contact paper so that I could etch some of the designs on a bathroom mirror. I'm also going to paint the shells on some larger bars of soap I have, or I might even use them to make decorative tiles. These shells are beautiful, and you'll come up with dozens of your own ideas for using them. Included are a chambered nautilus, an imperial wentletrap, a violet spider conch, a fighting stromb, an Atlantic bay scallop, and a vexillate volute.

Excellent Black & White drawings & printed etchings of C.1900-1910 "Gibson Girls" stylized drawings, that appear to have the "look" of Charles Dana Gibson or Harrison Fischer drawings. Both men were celebrated Illustraters of the turn of the century glamourized "coca cola" women. Recommended uses would be photocopying and for use in study & projects as there are facial closeups and women in various active poses. Very good...

I am in the play the trile of goldielocks and I have the part of baby bear. when I whent looking for a gift to give my friend (who also was in the play) and I found this. and as I said above,It's X-treamly cute!

"Great Brilliancy Prize Games of The Chess Masters." By Fred Reinfeld. Dover reprint. (1995) ISBN: # 0-486-28614-2

I used to have an original hardback version of this book - autographed by F. Reinfeld himself! I had to purchase another copy ... my last copy fell apart. (It was extremely old and the victim of overuse and abuse.)

First a note about the publisher. (Dover.) They specialize in reprinting older books, and have a very good reputation amongst chess players. Nice 'flex' cover, and a very sturdy binding. The fonts are clear and bold, and the diagrams are also very good; I had no problems visualizing the combinations working from the diagrams alone. The pages are not as opaque as I would like to have them, however.

This is one of the best books ever written. Who wouldn't want to study the very best games of the best tournaments ... played by some of the greatest players of all time? (Lasker, Alekhine, etc.)

The very first game - Schiffers vs. Harmonist, from Franfort, 1887 - is an eye opener in itself. 16.Re8!! is an absolute stunner of a move ... all the more shocking because at first glance it appears to be a blunder.

The student will learn much from this book, an extremely detailed study of this book would greatly help improve your tactics. There are tactics and ideas for combinations in here that I bet you have NEVER seen before!! It is difficult to believe that any average player - who studied this book in a thoughtful and thorough manner - would not improve. Every lover of beautiful chess will want this book as well; the games are the cream of the crop.

Some people will rag on this book and complain about it. "The opening lines are somewhat dated," they will say, and this is true. "Some of these players in here are guys you may have never heard of." "So what?," I would respond. The ONLY real criterion in a book like this should be the games themselves - and nothing else! These have been carefully and lovingly scrutinized by Reinfeld. They are also annotated pretty thoroughly ... the author has anticipated many of the more common questions that would be asked by the average chess player.

In the end, I would rate this book perfect, but not for the following flaws: # 1.) The pages have a little "bleed-through," especially in very strong light; # 2.) Too few diagrams; # 3.) The lack of player or opening indexes in the back of the book; # 4.) THIS BOOK IS IN THE OLD ENGLISH STANDARD DESCRIPTIVE NOTATION!!! If you have severe problems with this notation, than I recommend that you avoid this book.

But if the above drawbacks don't faze you, and you are looking for a VERY good deal, (inexpensive); on a chess book ... then maybe you should try this book out!

My favorite in this book is Pride and Prejudice. Jane Austen's work here is terrific, and the plot is filled with twists on love and fate. Heart of Darkness was somewhat difficult to understand, but the theme is meaningful nonethelsss. Portrait of the Young Artist is okay, but not too interesting to me. The stream of consciousness techique is pretty effective however. Dorian Gray was my least favorite in this book.

Matthaeus Marian (the Elder) was one of the most famous members of a family of German artists active in the 17th and 18th centuries. "Great Scenes from the Bible: 230 Magnificent 17th Century Engravings" presents all of the plates from the classic 1625 edition of the master engravers's collection of scenes from the Old and New Testaments presented in 128 pages in a 9x12 volume. Included are detail depictions of such Biblical scnes as Adam and Eve Driven Out of the Garden of Eden, The Flood, The Sacrifice of Isaac, The Tower of Babel, Daniel in the Lion's Den, The Good Samaritan, The Temptation of Christ in the Desert, The Raising of Lazarus, The Last Supper, The Crucifixion, and many more. Each engraving has a one-line title and the Biblical citation for book, chapter and verse (e.g., The Burning Bush, Exodus, 3.2). This is one of a series of nice little volumes from Dover that reproduces some of the greatest engravings of all time for those who admire this particular art form.

Fifty years ago some of the poems in this book were part of the mental baggage of every adult Engish speaker. These days Kipling's reputation has taken a hammering. It's easy to brand him rascist by quoting "the white man's burden" or lines like: "he was white clear white inside" from gunga din and forgetting the last three lines of the same poem, Imperialistic, mysoginist or whatever is currently unfashionable. Even as a poet he hasn't recovered from the movement of poetry during the twentieth century from the reader to the university. You don't need critics to "explain Kipling". There's not a lot your average university critic can say about Kipling's verse, he doesn't need copious critical commentary, and since he doesn't offer the critic much hope of publication, he's been neglected or damned with faint praise: "an ability to make the commonplace memorable" Well, invest a dollar and find out for yourself. He sings. "If" is, whatever you think of the last line, full of fine advice. "In the neolithic age" is something all writers and critics should read and remember and no one summed up the life of the British private soldier better. Dover thrift continue to provide an excellent service making good, cheap editions, free of any critical clutter, available so that readers can read for themselves. The only niggle with htis book is that Kiplin does need a glossary and the glossary in this book is a little too haphazard.