I am lucky to have such a strong imagination. But sometimes imagination doesn't cut it, especially when you don't know what the heck you're doing. Enter Outdoor Style. This book gave substance to my kooky gardening fantasies by giving me a clue of how I might carry those fantasies out. It said, "You want a trellis? Fine, make a trellis. Here's how." Previously, I would have fumbled to sculpt a tower of wire, eventually become disgruntled, and cracked open a beer to numb my resultant scrapes and scratches.

Outdoor Style reminded me of all the frou-frou and tra-la that I could add to my garden, plus motivated me to maintain the living, breathing elements (My jasmine climbs with new fervor!!!). I wouldn't say your garden will wither away without this book. Still, it sure is nice to feel both a little inspired AND a little competent., and this book helps. PLUS: the all important ambient photos run rampant through these pages. I am such a sucker for ambiance.....

This book is just the thing for all those who are not benefiting from the Bush II presidency! (Which includes any of us who are making under half a million per year.) But it's much more than a cookbook! It contains much insight and wisdom for dealing with the emotional rollercoaster that out of work people ride. Just the thing for these hard and confusing times we live in. Just another illustration of how the way to a man's heart is through his stomach!

Pacific Images by Nordyke and Mattison gives an outstanding history of Captain James Cooks third voyage, from 1776 to 1780. The reproduction of words and pictures from this voyage brings together preceptions of the journalists and artists of the time. The pictures include animals and people (body piercing is not a new thing!) as well as activities of the peoples with sweeping views of the landscape. The authors did an excellent job of presenting the facts in vivid detail after two decades of research. This book not only looks like it belongs on every coffee table, but also can be used as an excellent historical resource.

Just returned from a week in Egypt. This guide book gave our family all the necessary info and trivia to enjoy Ancient and Modern Egypt. From Luxor and the Valley of the Kings to Aswan Dam, we learned more from Passport's than our tourguides. In Cairo, the maps helped with our navigation. Small and compact yet informative. Truely the only book that was in our hands the entire week. THANKS!

anything by james keeble rules. i rule. keeble rules!

This is an in-depth guide to Normandy, France with excellent maps and color photographs, descriptions of sites to see with detailed and practical information, historical notes, and suggestions. Reasonably comprehensive at reasonable cost for a regional guide, but as far as accommodations go, only lists chains, not specific hotels.

I love pasta. This book makes cooking with it a breeze. Every recipe has a full color picture of the finished product...plus intermediate pictures of the preparation. The instructions are extremely clear with easy to follow numbers.

The introduction to the book contains pictures with everything you ever wanted to know about pasta. It shows _every_ kind of pasta imaginable. It also explains how to make many of those pastas. Finally, it contains a section on the common ingredients in pasta recipes, what they are why you use them.

I accidentally came across this book and it has become a gold mine of information. Every recipe on every page looks better then the last, and every recipe I have made has tasted better then the last.

This is an excellent guide to the web. Just the sort of book we've all been waiting for! Easy to understand and highly informative. It tells you in straightforward terms how the world wide web developed from the early Internet days, how it works and you can use it in many different ways. For example, it points you towards very useful web sites on health, education and business.

I passed my copy onto my young nephew. He was fascinated by it and has now begun to use the web himself to help him with his studies and find out lots of info about his favourite sports!

This book has become an invaluable tool for my Sunday School Teaching methods. It gives the specific setting of the subject, the related bible references and excellent commentary without bias to any denominational emphasis. The well rounded and authoritive commentary speaks well of the publisher and allows me to provide a sound biblical base to my lessons. I wouldn't be without it.

This is a fascinating biography of a man who bored himself to death. Surreal, satirical and often plain silly, Peter Cook's comedy was like Monty Python with fangs. Achieving everything he could hope for at the beginning of his career, he spent the rest of his life looking for a vehicle, suffering the same fate as countless other unique comic talents - years ahead of his time, he was eventually marginalised by an establishment that couldn't find a role for him, ending his career with a few brilliant flourishes and a sense that he never really fitted in.

The biography itself is the best that can be hoped for - despite a lack of support from Cook's last wife, Harry Thompson interviews almost everybody who knew him, and the book covers everything he did up to and including 'Why Bother?', with Chris Morris. At the end of the book you'll want to go out and buy the complete 'Beyond the Fringe' recordings, and a higher compliment cannot be paid.