San Antonio, Texas, provides the setting for a power struggle among vampires. We immediately see the tension between Prince Ramses and Zapporoah, the sister he fears. All of the vampires in this novel find victims by appealing to the human needs for sex or company, or by preying on the most sinister representatives of the human race. The vampires seem as authentic and as unlike each other as the real people in our real lives. In fact, Jones carefully creates a mythic world that seems strangely ordinary, as if this violent drama could actually lurk around any corner, potentially disrupting our safe existence.

Since I live in Lubbock, Texas, I was happy (or maybe disturbed) to learn that Lubbock has a vampire on the Council of Ramses! Jones constantly and skillfully weaves familiar places and familiar mythology into the narrative, compounding that feeling that this world seems oddly like our own.

Among some members of the Kindred, the thirst for power rivals the thirst for blood, making them even more dangerous to humanity and to their fellow vampires. The ensuing battle threatens ancient codes of honor and tradition, revealing the meaning behind the book's subtitle: "A Vampire's Lesson in Betrayal."

It is a book special to all that want to know interesting details about useful and "popular" languages like C, Pascal, etc, but also about that so called "classic"(on that concerns design) that are not so current, like Icon, CSP, going up to outsiders like Io. It is great for an undergraduate course on programming language topics (to show why things are not finished just in Computer Programming I) or even to stimulate graduate students to research in area. Perhaps not the best scientifically (Watt or Appel did better, yeat!), but is the best in motivation!

Two third grade children ( a boy and a girl) encounter a Twinkie-eating alien. As he tries to help them, he unwittingly causes problems by turning the school bully into a big baby. Gabe thought he would still have enjoyed it in the 6th grade, but the reading difficulty is pretty elementary beyound the 4th grade. Words to advanced for mosts first graders. Excellent science fiction with black and white illustrations.

This book is Awesome. Very easy to piece stars with new techniques using template taped under a see through ruler to cut odd shaped pieces. Great examples of use of different colors to give the same star a totally different look. Interesting border treatment.

In life Amon G Carter was all for getting the American plane industry off the ground. In fact, he flew the first airplane to Ft Worth, Texas, in 1911. With his death, in 1955, he hoped to open up the arts to all. So, by his will, a museum was set up to house as many works as possible by Frederic Remington and Charles M Russell.

His museum more than meets that goal. Its catalogue shows it to be the place to go for the art of both American frontier artists. For example, the museum has A dash for the timber. This oil on canvas made Remington a major painter, in 1889. The museum also has The fall of the cowboy. Two cowboys with their horses about to pass through gate rails, under a gray sky, in a wintry landscape, are painted so close in tones that you know a way of life's in its twilight years. Also, the museum has The outlaw. The bronze freezes in time the realistic folds in the rider's hat and his shifting weight against his pitching horse.

The catalogue also shows the museum to be the place to go for American drawings, paintings, photographs, prints, sculptures and watercolors. The staff sees as landmark additions American Indian symbols by painter Marsden Hartley and Barber shop, Bass rocks #2, Blips and ifs, Chinatown, and Egg beater #2 by lithographer and painter Stuart Davis. John Singer Sargent's portrait of Alice Vanderbilt Shepard, too, is seen as a catch. It contrasts the girl's carefully worked face with the thinly painted rest. Who can forget the brilliant white with blue and pink in her jacket and folds of her blouse?

Pride of ownership also goes out to sculptures by Alexander Calder and David Smith. There's Lunar landscape by Louise Nevelson, on painted wood. It goes out also to photographs. In fact, the museum's photography collection now swells at over 250,000 objects. For example, there's Berthoud by Robert Adams. There's Great gallery, Horseshoe Canyon, Utah, by Linda Connor. There's Music - a sequence of 10 cloud photographs by Alfred Stieglitz.

There are even daguerreotypes by Josiah Hawes and Albert Southworth. Two women posed with a chair has quite a range of clear tones, because of an extra layer of silver having been electroplated to copper plate. The smallest detail in their lace collars is caught. The light from the ceiling skylight also catches both women, in a Rembrandt-like highlighting.

Patricia Junker et al have come up with nicely arranged illustrations and clearly thought out write-ups for each item in the exhibition. AN AMERICAN COLLECTION's a keeper. It works well, too, with Junker's JOHN STEUART CURRY: INVENTING THE MIDDLE WEST and WINSLOW HOMER: ARTIST AND ANGLER.

This book is a great resource for ideas on corporate identity design. It covers such diverse categories as identity programs, package design, letterheads, manuals, signage/environmental graphics, brochures, and logos. I like this book because it covers such a wide range of applications for graphic design. Each section (for instance, package design) has lots of examples of work. It's obvious that this book is intended as a source of inspiration for visual and conceptual ideas. There is not one word of explanatory text in the entire book. It doesn't tell you anything about the process each designer went through, nor does it talk about the history of design. It's simply a collection of the best corporate identity design work of about 400 U.S. design firms. The book has a very simple, clean layout and nice photos. My favorite sections are the package designs(many diverse types of products are shown) and the logos(tons of examples). I highly recommend this book, even though it has no text.

This book is a great resource for ideas on corporate identity design. It covers such diverse categories as identity programs, package design, letterheads, manuals, signage/environmental graphics, brochures, and logos. I like this book because it covers such a wide range of applications for graphic design. Each section (for instance, package design) has lots of examples of work. It's obvious that this book is intended as a source of inspiration for visual and conceptual ideas. There is not one word of explanatory text in the entire book. It doesn't tell you anything about the process each designer went through, nor does it talk about the history of design. It's simply a collection of the best corporate identity design work of about 400 U.S. design firms. The book has a very simple, clean layout and nice photos. My favorite sections are the package designs(many diverse types of products are shown) and the logos(tons of examples). I highly recommend this book, even though it has no text.

This book is an absolutely wonderful resource containing many kinds of print media work by various artists.

From company logos to letterheads, to packaging designs, this book is a true treasure of eye candy and worth every dollar!

I just love this book. Mary put her heart into this book & the love for her family ...it reflects in every page. The applesauce with plums is fantastic! In the pages of this book you will see awesome pictures that show the true essence on family and there love of home & what is important to them. If you ever get a chance to buy a copy of this book now that it is now out of print -you will be rewarded with joy in seeing the heart of a family. ENJOY & let the pages of this book rub off on you in how you look at life & family.

I picked up American Millstone on a bargain shelf at a local bookstore in Houston. I wrote to the Chicago Tribune for more copies but they had none. The chapters are an EXCELLENT source of short reading articles for a high school English class. I wish they would do a more up to date series as this book was written before the infamous "crack wave."