Ever wonder how that batter is supposed to look? How stiff does the peak have to be after beating the egg whites? When they said 'lemon colored', do they have any idea how neon yellow the sunkist lemons look at the grocery store?! Yes? Well, you won't have any of those problems if you use this cookbook.

I can't help but give this book 5 stars. I enjoy cooking and baking as a hobby and even more since I found a couple of the HP Cookbooks at a used book store in Chicago. Not only do the recipes make for some delicious meals but they have exquisite photographs side by side with step by step instructions. These series are a must-have resource for those who enjoy cooking and culinary art, both photographic and gastronomic!

This book made me a Edmond Jabes fan - I doubt that any other of his books would have for this is by far the most accessible. Jabes is an Egyptian Jew in exile in France writing primarily after the Holocaust. His writing style is a series of snippets - fiction, poetry, aphorisms - that explore the limits of language and the role of the blank, the silence, the desert, the unwritten. In The Books of Shares each of these snippets stands on its own - that is not true, for example, of the multi-volume Book of Questions. The result is a truly post-modern reflection on theology and philosophy - and post-modern without pretention.

When I read this book on a silent retreat, I found passage after passage that I wanted to hear, to memorize, to enter into my journal.

An example: "Out of the words of his language, a writer forges new words, not neologisms, but words irrigated with his blood. He founds a second language which, to be sure, is rooted in the first with all its fibers, but which henceforth, being his own - O paradox - is nobody's. Because the writer's language wants to be only of the book, of the instant and duration of a liberated word."

If you enjoy the Books of Shares, there are many wonderful volumes of Jabes to follow. If you do not enjoy this, you may safely assume that Jabes is not your reading choice.

This book is an excellent resource for any teacher who is doing a unit on the American Revolution. The book includes activities that are suitable for ages 8-13 and factual narrative stories that are directed at this audience. It even includes a skit about the Boston Massacre that students love to do! Whether you are writing lesson plans or looking for a resource for you classroom library or media center, this book is a must-have!

I happened upon this novel at the library last year, and it was a pleasant surprise. It is an account of Wingate from his service in colonial Palestine to his death in the CIB Theater. We see him working with the Haganah, setting up ambushes of Arab terrorists, much to the hair-pulling rage of his superiors; then to his liberation of Ethiopia, leading a few hundred poorly-armed and -trained locals but with the moral and charismatic power of Selassie (an excellent portrayal) at is side; then to the Chindits and their operations in Burma. Wingate proves to be an irresistable subject: insubordinate, stubborn, reckless, fearless, and egomaniacal, yet tender to his wife and wanting nothing more than to get this damn WWII finished so he can return to fight for Israel's independence. A fascinating man; a brilliant novel.

In this well written book Larry Taylor explains how genetic hard coding of individuals is more consistent with crime statistics than politically correct root-cause theories would suggest. The centerpiece of the book is the chapter on twin studies which have been carried on in Minnesota for over 40 years. As Taylor points out many other locales in the world have engaged in similar studies with substantially identical implications; England and denmark come to mind.

The inescapable fact is that identical twins separated at birth and then reunited 30-40 years later end up showing remarkable similarity with regard to their personalities, there life choices, their habits and patterns, and a whole host of other characteristics too many to cite. It is from this observation that Taylor lends credence to the concept that some of us are in fact born to crime.

It's too bad that a politically correct major media, with its attendant liberal agenda, has failed to include reasoned arguments such as those advanced by Larry Taylor and many others. It has taken the intervening 18 years since this book was published in 1984 for some of the more honest Liberal critics on the Left i.e. Bernard goldberg, to gain sufficient traction to hold their own Liberal media establishment up to the proper scrutiny

Although Taylor never mentions Race he was castigated as a racist by the political Left after writing this book for daring to suggest that genetic makeup could be causitive of criminal behavior. It's well done and shouldn't be so difficult to get. A couple of years ago Taylor came to me to get my copy back as he had none left of his own and couldn't find one in the public domain. Such is too often the fate of books not adhering to a virulent political correctness, a child of totalitarian communism and far right wing religions, which has had such a damaging effect on American society in the last 30 years.

Although classification etc. is out of date, the descriptions and drawings make this an excellent botanical source for any student.

Among the legends of the Prohibition era, the Shelton-Birger gang war, perhaps because of its rural setting, has been long overlooked by most gangster books and it's a shame. A lot of stuff happened outside New York and Chicago. In the mid-to-late '20's, the Birger and Shelton gangs rivaled Capone's Chicago beer wars in terms of both publicity and body count. Spectacularly so, with not only machine guns but armored trucks and even the first aerial bombing in U.S. history. What Gary DeNeal did for Charlie Birger, Taylor Pensoneau has now done admirably for his rivals. Birger was hanged in 1928 but the Shelton boys continued to prosper, in bootlegging, gambling and labor racketeering until the late '40's, when their story came to a violent end and this well researched and highly readable account tells the whole story. Read up, Hollywood--the Sheltons deserve a movie!

this small book is a treasure. the photos are stunning, there is a broad range of subjects and the text is informative. its a pity it is out of print.

Taylor Coffman is an extraordinary thinker and writer. His far-ranging mind covers both in depth and in scope a unique era and two of its most intriguing and passionately creative personalities. Mr. Coffman has a way with words that is delightfully entertaining and keenly informative. This is a five-star performance and worth every penny!

I read this book some years ago on the recommendation of some online friends. I must say if you are a mutual fund investor and want to get better at it, this is a great book to learn from. Some of the benchmarks are dated but the general ideas are not. Additionally, the section on appropriate investment selections based on economic cycles is itself worth the purchase of the book.

Happy investing.