This has to be one of the best books on wine ever published. The photographs are outstanding and I particularly liked the interviews with wine makers. I can recommend this book to anyone interested in wines, in book layout, in photography AND in the Southern Cape wine reagons. Excellent fare.

This is probably the most beautiful book on wine I have ever encountered. I love it! Although it focuses primarily on the South African wine industry, the information on grape growing, winemaking and brandy making is really complete and relevant to any winemaking region. The photography in this book is of the highest quality and is simply breathtaking. Anyone who has visited South Africa will agree that it has probably the most beautiful wine region in the world. This book's pictures tell the same story with excellent photography. Oh and by the way, it is the official textbook of the Cape Wine Academy in South Africa (sure doesn't look like your typical textbook -too colorful and easy to read!) I would recommend this book to ANY wine lover since a lot can be learned from it in a fun way. Makes a stunning 'coffee table' book.

I came to Ted Hughes through the work of Sylvia Plath. I cannot profess to be huge fan of his poetry, although it clearly has a thread of brilliance through it. His essays, however are truly illuminating. I'm not sure if there is another English language critic today who can bore so deeply into the essence of his subject, look at it from so many angles and levels, and, place it in so many contexts. His interests are universal but his gaze is most acute when looking into the psycho drama of literary creation. This book, covering a selection of every period of his career provides the reader with new insights into reading he might have already covered as well as a wealth of new material. Some selections rank with T S Eliot's 'Sacred Wood' as some of the century's most profound literary criticism.

It is difficult to call to my mind a book that could more thoroughly engage a serious reader, in a reading life that spans three or four decades, than Winter Pollen.

Hughes has a way of putting things into a context that the western mind can participate in. He is a wholly erudite man in a time when the world is as "thoroughly departmental" as an ant colony. It is with awe and a total liberation from the constraints of work, family, provincialism, capitalism and religionism that one plunges into this hypnotic work that moves from Shakespeare to Sufism like a streetcar moving along an established route.

Hughes' consciousness and curiosity is like a web he has spun around the world and into the universe, and we, his readers, are taken into his micro and macrocosms like children on a field trip, wondering why, after we have finished an essay or section of Winter Pollen, we do not think about these things more often. It is with a keen sense of what inspires wonder that he awakens wonder in a reader. He walks with an acrobat's balance across a tight rope spanning a gorge with carnivorous pedants on one side and stoned surrealists on the other, both camps trying to distract him and cause a fall, realizing his full commitment to either would precipitate a disaster for the other.

It is truly a wonder that he is not more celebrated and more known. Magazine publications with alleged literary repute have trumpeted writers with less than a tenth of his skill and imagination for three decades. But this is all OK. Perhaps a world sensible enough to embrace this literary lion would be too dull.

I picked up this book at a suggetion of a friend. Once I started reading it, I could not put it down. It's a very entertaining book, with historical insight to English-Roman relations during the first century.

The characters, Caracatus, Rhiannon, Taran, Porcious, et al are well "fleshed-out". It was easy at first to peg the "good" and the "bad" people. But as the story went on, good and bad started depending on your point of view, and as the characters grew. The author's descriptions of sights, smells and sounds make you feel as though you were part of the story.

I would highly recommend this book to everyone, at least for it's historical perspective on 1st century English monarchy, religion and Roman relations. But more than that, it is a well-paced, action-packed book, that will keep you entertained from start to finish.

THE WOLF OF ALBION dramatizes the life of the First Century British hero, Caratacus, who fought against invading Roman legions to achieve honor in defeat before the Roman Emperor.

A young Caratacus struggles to impress a demanding father and claim his mantle as chief of their tribe, excelling as a hunter and a warrior. Torn between two women, the gentle warrior Rhiannon, and the Druid priestess, Taran, Caratacus takes his place as the great British battle leader opposing Roman invasion, to be brought in chains but never in defeat to Rome.

Every British schoolchild knows the name of Caratacus. Now American readers can follow his exploits in this meticulously-researched novel by an author with a degree in Ancient Mediterranean Civilizations. A worthy read.

Beautiful photographs, excellent text, good format. All in all an excellent source for brides-to-be. I recommend this book highly to those planning a wedding or special event.

If you have not tried Bowmar's Adventures in Music Listening for listening lessons, I would highly recommend it. There are two different levels available: K-2 and 3-5, with a third level for grades 6-8 still to be published. Level 1 has 32 lessons with outcomes and content standards that correlate to the National Standards for Music Education. The Teacher's Edition includes a CD with an exerpt for each lesson, which is the part that I love the most, since the excerpts are brief and focus on one or two specific musical concepts. Level 1 also has a Big Book with pictures for each of the lessons, a student activity book and a student coloring book available. Level 2 has the Teacher's Guide/CD and a student activity book. I have used this resource in my general music classroom over and over and my students are thrilled when they see the workbooks pulled out. They love to listen and look at the pictures in the big book/coloring book.

Joseph Sugarman is a Master Marketer with a long record of success and he reveals many of his secrets here. A "Must Read" for copywriters.

I must have read this book, to my niece over 100 times. When we read this book Alfie comes to life, like when the time Alfie gets in first,we wondered how he would let his mum and little sister in as he was too small to reach the door latch, and also Alfie's new shoes was a great adventure for us as my niece once said just before falling asleep I don't want new shoes either I think alfie should keep his old ones because if he gets new ones they wont be able to walk him home and he might get lost. Little annie rose also makes the story complete as it showed us the real life adventures brothers and sisters can have. It is a great book and katie and I would recomend every child has one.Katie and I first started reading this book when she was two and now at the age of seven when I go to visit her she reads it to me.This book is full of love,adventures and and real family values and has given us hours of fun.All i have left to say is thank you Alfie and thank you Shirley Hughes.

My 2-year-old daughter LOVES this book. I've been reading it 3-4 times a day for the last two weeks. Frankly, I don't think the book is exceptional but she certainly does! She even "reads" it by herself.

What a shame this book is out of print. My 2 year old son loves this book.The illustrations are wonderfull the busy shoe shop and the cosy kitchen where Dad is making tea. Its the perfect rainy day book. My son always wants to go and put on his yellow boots just like Alfie and go out and jump in the puddles. SPLISH, SPLASH, SPLOSH

After defeating the Giants in the championship now the must take on the Royals Redsox and TIGERS Can they do it That's all up to Jonathan if he braggs they should not even be here if he doesen't they deserve the Little League World Title (as long as Chinese Taipei is thrown out of the series forever