This book displays both the homes and recipes of Vicksburg, MS. Full color coffee-table book with wonderful stories and recipes of the Deep South. Highly Recommended!!! ...and the #1 cookbook of 1997!

The American Express Travel Guide of Amsterdam (1992), written by Derek Blythe, has been re-written by Carol Winkelman and re-published as Travel&Leisure: Amsterdam (1997). Travel&Leisure magazine, in conjunction with Macmillan Travel, designed this new version of the book for a larger audience that includes young travelers, budget travelers, babyboomer travelers, discriminating travelers, and business travelers. The new book is a combination of traditional and offbeat travel guide, helping the reader find his/her way to hotels, restaurants, museums, and historical sites while also taking him/her "inside" Amsterdam to experience its cafe culture, lively arts scene, and famous nightlife. The new book, like The American Express Guide, includes an excursion to Rotterdam that leads the reader from the historic to the ultramodern.

This medical reference guide is easy to understand and follow; all symptoms of illnesses are clearly grouped into diagrams/charts that lead you through a set of yes-no questions to lead to probable diagnosis and recommendations for treatment. The illustrations are also excellent. I use my copy all the time and always buy extras to give at wedding and baby showers, Every family should have a copy of this guide.

This book raises some interesting questions about the roles of religion (specifically Puritanism), mourning and grief in early American literature, specifically Rowlandson's Captivity Narrative. I recommend this book to anyone who does serious research into early American literature, history, and cultural context. This is *not* an easy or light read.

This title, in two volumes, covers the vast sweep of Asia Minor's history, from Alexander to the height of the Byzantine Empire. The first volume concentrates on two major periods; the early part of the 3rd century BC when Celtic tribes settled throughout the interior, and the coming of the Romans and their colonisation of the eastern flank of their empire. Mr Mitchell has crafted an enormously readable history of the region. The detail is extraordinary but the prose never becomes turgid or obtuse. By examining the intertwined complexities of people's relations to the land and their Gods, Mr Mitchell has broken new ground and produced a book that is that most unusual of beasts, both readable and scholarly.

This seven page boardbook is filled with colorful, fun photos of cats and kittens playing, eating, bathing and just being cute. Short descriptions accompany these pics.. The book is the shape of a cat's head and the cover is a great close up picture of a cat's face. My daughter and I were at the library the first time she saw this book and she wouldn't put it down; she likes to study the face, especially the eyes. I don't know a toddler who can get close enough to a real cat to do that!

The Austrian playwright Werner Schwab is just beginning to be brought to English-speaking audiences. His career recapitulates many familiar features of the German-speaking enfant terrible: major drug abuse (well, alcohol), massive productivity, an early death. (Yo! Fassbinder! C'mere!) His talent, however, was unique, if Michael Mitchell's translations are anything to go by.

Schwab exploits the remarkable capacity of the German language to make abstract concepts seem like solid objects. This is what drove Nietzsche up the wall, but Schwab revels in it, making extraordinary black comedy out of the plastic qualities of German. It sounds academic, but it's not. A character in one play says that her husband might "get a nervous spasm down his marriage". In another play, while a person is being beaten up, a character muses that "human society beats up human society too much." The remarkable thing about this book is that Mitchell manages to make this extremely weird and singular idiom fresh and funny.

Schwab's sense of construction is no less weird. If a character gets killed in Scene 1, chances are he or she will be back be Scene 3 as if nothing had happened. Schwab's vision is as dark as Thomas Bernhard's, but it's as if Bernhard's consciousness of despair and loss has been determinedly blurred in an ocean of cheap beer. There's a "version" here of Schnitzler's La Ronde which reads like it was rewritten by the collective mind of the Sex Pistols. It's good to see this amazing writer being served so well by a translator. I doubt that American producers are going to leap at the chance of putting Schwab on Broadway, but that's the public's loss. He is a vigorous kick up the fundament of the all-too-slack and showbizzy English-speaking theatre.

This book is well written, and easily read and understood by the average reader. It explores not only the history of Praxiteles most famous creation, but also deals with the female nude in the Ancient Hellenic world. The book helps explain the attitudes of people towards female nudity, and make sense of the appearance of the various female nudes of antiquity. I thoroughly enjoyed the book.

Unbelievable! I have witnessed this very type of thing. Most people don't understand just how hateful people can be to others. I laughed, cried and cringed, unable to put the book down. A sigh of relief was all I had left after reading this story.