A very comprehensive book about perfume, soap and cosmetic industry. Decribes in great details about the industry historically. The book also provides information about where the flow, tendency and future of the perfume is going.

A must buy for perfumers, soap makers, and general cosmetic manufacturers.

...which become obsolete probably within the year. Nevertheless, this is a good guide for what is and is not available, a price or value relative to another model, or what was ever made in the first place. It's obsolete by now as a price guide (one look at eBay will tell you that), but a comprehensive guide to the hobby.

I thoroughly enjoyed Gail Butler's book. Sometimes I felt as if I was there with here. Its an easy read and very instructional. It makes me want to go to California or Arizona and start digging, panning and nugget detecting. If you have only been coin shooting and want to know what it is like to prospect and detect for gold this book is a great one. Read it.

This is the first major comedy by Sheridan, a radical Irish actor and politician in George III's England. Not quite as complex and astute as his later She Stoops to Conquer, the Rivals remains a warm, unforgettable, and very, very funny play.

Here we meet the chatty Mrs. Malaprop, who proudly tells us "if I reprehend anything in this world, it is the use of my oracular tongue, and a nice derangement of epitaphs"; her niece Lydia, lost in the world of lurid half-bound romantic novels; Sir Anthony Absolute, often wrong but never in doubt; Sir Lucious O'Trigger, of BlunderBuss Hall; and the rest. The dialogue and plot devices are well-crafted and funny; the social commentary is perceptive and satisfyingly naughty; but what stays with you is the humanity of each of the characters. These are not the charicatures of Restoration comedy, but personalties the reader will remember; ridiculous like all humans, but engendering empathy as well as laughter.

The pictures in this book are quiet gorgeous, and the Family Tree lines impressive.

The history compiled within this book is equally impressive spanning over more than 400 years.

This book gives you an overview of The Saddlebred Breed and its background as well as it's uses in society. I would classify this book as a History of the Saddlebred if you will.

When I purchased this book, I was looking for a book that would not only tell me more about the breed itself, but how to work with as well as train this type of horse. I was also interested in learning more about the general characteristics, personality, habits & riding styles of this breed, more that the actual history.

This is an excellent "coffee table" book for horse lovers. I personally was looking for a book that contained more day to day information about the breed, although I did find the material in the book very interesting and somewhat helpful.

This is a short biography of Samuel Butler, written by Henry Festing Jones, a personal friend of his. This book covers all of his life, from his wasted youth, through his loss of religion, his authorship of Erewhon and The Way of All Flesh, and on to his death. Being written by a friend, this book contains no surprises and very little analysis. However, if you want a quick introduction to Samuel Butler, then this book is for you.

Interesting conclusions on Sauniere Symposium. Some great new facts about Rennes-Le-Chateau mystery. Good for those already initiated on the subjet

The lushious paintings of John Bulter invite the reader into a story about Shadow and her 3 day old baby fawn. When Shadow goes off for food and water, she pushes the head of the fawn down. Instinctively the fawn then knows he must keep low and hide while his mother hunts. Unfortunately, mother fox Redflank was trying to provide for her young when she spotted the fawn. Hearing the pheasant's call of alarm, Shadow speeds home and proceeds to attack Redflank, jumping on her with her long, strong legs, hitting her with her hooves. Shadow indeed prevails, and life will continue for her newborn fawn.

This tale of frontier life, in what is now Wisconsin, was one of my favorite historical novels for young people when I was growing up in the northern midwest in the 50's & 60's. The book portrays its characters and the times sympathetically yet realistically. The main theme tells of the maturing love between a young man who is ready to establish a trading post even farther west and a lovely ward of his French frontier family who was raised in the East and can choose to return.

Judith Butler, who is nowadays best known for her theory of "performative" gender differenciation, wrote her thesis about the reception of Hegel's philosophy in France. The book is not an exhaustive overview of Hegelian reflections as they appeared, in various forms, in the twentieth century France, but it certainly does include the most important of them (except for Georges Bataille, whose version of Hegelianism is not mentioned in the book, but in her new preface, Judith Butler herself admits this absence). In the first part of the book, Butler deals with Kojeve's and Hyppolite's interpretations of Hegel's Phenomenology, while the second part is concerned with Sartre, Lacan, Foucault and Deleuze. Even though the book doesn't bring anything new to those who are already familiar with the work of the thinkers mentioned above, it may be read as an extremely clear and concise introduction to the French Hegelianism.