The premise of the book is that art is NOT merely just an impulse purchase over which we have little control as many art industry people erroneously believe. I know that this is something that I believed for a long time and I know many of my own customers believe this also. But with Zella's book, she explains how to separate the "one-time only" customers from the customers who are "potential collectors" who are anxious to become part of the art world, and who want to be "wooed" and "romanced" by a dealer they trust on an ongoing basis. These type of people, and you only need about 300 of them in your collector base, are always thrilled and eager to talk to you and buy new art from you as many as 10 times a year. Zella explains how to create loyalties with these type of people and then she explains how to turn these individuals into your own salesforce who will give you lots of referrals, repeat business, and a lot of them will do art shows for you in their own homes and offices. I've personally used a lot of her ideas in my own business and they work really well. It's a lot of work to do everything that she talks about, but if you are serious about being in this business for the rest of your life, than you cannot go on without learning everything in this book, and her first book, "The Art of Selling Art".

If you want to have a collection of some of the best calligraphic works in one book, this is the book for you!

As Alexa and Darius find their way from college lovers to man and wife, you will travel on their journey with them--crying when they cry, frowning when they are frustrated, and cheering when they reach the ultimate success of true love.

A wonderful journey!

This is ABSOLUTELY a book no history teacher should be without. It is filled with black line maps of a wide variety of periods in American history. Can't find "Jackson Hole," or, "Lundy's Lane? You will find it here. I taught for 35 years and for the last 15 this book was my right hand!

Frank O'Reilly's insightful, twenty-one page introduction to Augustus C. Hamlin's rare 1896 work, originally entitled The Battle of Chancellorsvile: The Attack of Stonewall Jackson..., gives it the status of a classic. The following two paragraphs are taken directly from O'Reilly's opening introduction: In the early morning of May 2, 1863, a small cavalcade of Federal horsemen galloped out the Orange Plank Road. At the head of the group, "...with the air of a king, very red in the face, but holding his big fat body very erect," rode the commander of the Army of the Potomac, Major General Joseph Hooker. Close behind him cantered the one-arm nascent leader of the Union Eleventh Corps, Major General Oliver Otis Howard. Merry staff officers bantered and teased while the generals glanced over their defenses. After a short look, Hooker voiced his satisfaction with the Eleventh Corps position and returned to Chancellorsville to consummate his mysterious plans for victory over Confederate General Robert E. Lee. Nine hours later, the soldiers of the Eleventh Corps sat stoically manning their trenches or cooking dinner and listening to the sweet refrains of musicians in the distance. They also heard rumors that the Confederates had abandoned the battlefield and now hurried to escape the Federals' clutches. "Unharness those horses, boys, give them a good feed of oats," laughed General O.O. Howard. "We will be off for Richmond at daylight." Suddenly, a startled deer bolted from the forest, barreling through the astonished soldiers. Other deer darted from the woods, pursued by rabbits, foxes and birds scurrying in every direction. All nature had gone awry. Driving the wildlife before them came the cadenced ranks of Lieutenant General Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson's Confederates. The gray-clad Southerners plowed into the Union defenses "...like a crash of thunder from the clear sky." Introduction by Frank O'Reilly is a graduate of, and guest lecturer at, Washington & Lee University. He has written widely on the war along the Rappahannock, and is the author of introductions to new editions of Phil Sheridan's memoirs and the history of the First Massachusetts Cavalry. An authority on Stonewall Jackson, O'Reilly is the author of Stonewall Jackson at Fredericksburg, co-author of the Atlas of the Civil War and is researching a book on the Chancellorsville Campaign. Edited by Pia Seija Seagrave is a poet, musician, and teacher of English for twenty years. She is now Associate Professor of English at Gallaudet University

Even though we happen to be a Pagan family, any family would enjoy the history of the Autumn Equinox in this book. It's great to read what many ancient cultures did to celebrate the harvest and incorporate some into our modern life.

Wonderful Native American Tale at the end. Buy with the Winter Solstice book. I wish they would come out with the Summer Solstice and Spring Equinox!!!

Professor Jackson's great contributions to the study of the Avesta, the Avestan language and its script will live forever. I use this book often as a reference and everytime I learn something new about the Avestan language.

I highly recommend this book to all lovers of Iranian languages and scripts.

To the best of my knowledge, the Zorastrians are the only major religious group to have lost a significant portion of their Scripture. This slim text provides nine easy passages from the Avesta, together with notes and a vocabulary section. This should be sufficient for someone who reads Vedic Sanskrit to read a bit of Avestan. As the Vedic and Avestan mythologies are from the same branch of Indo-European mythology, the texts provide interesting insights into the pre-Vedic mythology.

While focusing on the second Chindit campaign of British Major-General Orde Wingate into Burma, this book manages to convey the essence of the characters without rendering the work itself too dry. From the formation of the USAAF's (the US Air Force was not formed until after WWII) unit to the end of the reconquest of Burma, this book captures the mind of the reader and brings the events to life as few others can. Orde Wingate, the fiery and brilliant commander and innovator, is revealed to have been known only as 'The Man' to his US allies, throughout the ranks of the 1st Commando. Philip Cochran and John Alison, the co-commanders of the air wing seem to almost breath, as their personalities, and perhaps unique compatibility, serve them well in the military rarity - a co-command. An excellent and wholly readable work for anyone interested in Operation Thursday, the China-Burma-India Theater, or the development of airborne penetration of troops behind enemy lines. What these men did then is what modern warfare in its truest sense is today.

While celebrating a special occasion eating in a nice restaurant near Seattle, my 4-year-old was devastated when his celebration balloon drifted up to the high ceiling. I picked up the "Balloon Galloon" as his bedtime story that evening, not knowing it told of this creature which eats the balloons lost by children all over the world. No book could have fit the occasion better, and several days after that my grandson would mention the hero of the story and want reassured that there really isn't such a creature as the Balloon Galloon. It's a book children will enjoy and remember.