Very helpful book for the beginner collector of kitchenware, especially old English kitchenware. Lots of colour photographs of the items the author talks about, which makes for quick identification. Wonderful book.

This is a very useful book to know how much my own collections are worth. But it is not for american anthique,only for french and british.

This 1924 book is not an autobiography. The author does not mention his first wife who died in 1893 at all and does not name his second wife, whom he married in 1900. I learned about his marriages from reading the article on him in the Encyclopedia
Americana, not from reading the book. DePew's fame came from his speeches and his political activity. In 1910 he published his addresses and orations in 8 volumes! The book is not modest about its author and sounds like one would expect a garrulous man in his eighties who is used to being deferred to would sound, telling what a great guy he is and what great people he has known (every President from Lincoln to Coolidge!). The book was written before Harding died and DePew says Harding is "developing the highest qualities of leadership." This quote illustrates a flaw in the book: he usually only tells us good things about people he knew, tho he must have known interesting unfavorable things about many of the people he talks about. All in all, I enjoyed reading this book by a man who was a household name in his lifetime but I suppose is unknown to most people today. I found the book in a college library. (I like college libraries--they don't weed out old books as public libraries too often do.)

My great uncle actually wrote this book. I highly reccomend this book to anyone interested in politics or American history. He rubbed shoulders with the wealthy vanderbilts, and made many government decisions. Truly an inside look at an influential person.

Jane Hawkins' book is an easy read. It is packed with a lot of science-fiction ideas and concepts. I reccomend this book to anyone who is interested in science-fiction.

This book presents the plot behind the PC games Quantum Gate and Vortex. I had played both games and enjoyed them very much. The story starts with new soldiers being prepared for battle in a planet so deadly that they have to use VR helmets during battle. They shoot at what they think are nasty alien bugs but one of them finally discovers what are they REALLY shooting at. Then he has to make some very tough choices and battle the people who want to keep all secrets buried.

The market is being flooded with these, so some of us opt to subscribe to "Cooking Light" to keep a constant source of this quick and healthy cooking.

This cookbook is in that vein, one that was given to me as a present. Most of the recipe collection is basic, healthy stuff that one has already seen, but nonetheless it is good stuff. Doesn't truly excite one to cook often or much less, use for a major gourmet performance, but solid in its own right.

Thus far, enjoyed dishes such as Veal Scaloppine with Fennel and Orange, Southwestern Shrimp and Snapper Stew.

If you can get your hands on this book, I suggest you do so. I found the recipes easy to prepare with ingredients that are on hand. (In otherwords, nothing exotic!) Every one I have tried is delicious as well. The pictures enhance the cookbook and rather than making a dish look impossible the presentation looks doable.

Mitchell's book might be thought of as two books. It is mainly about the meaning of photography at a time when pictures can be so easily manipulated and changed. It's really a philosophical discussion of truth and ethics. However, the middle section of the book is more about the technical aspects of 2D and 3D graphics, with explanations of the fundamental concepts that underlie digital images and compositing techniques, as well as computer modeled and rendered scenes.

And fortunately, both sections are great. THE RECONFIGURED EYE is valuable both as a reconsideration of photographic truth in a the context of new technologies, and as a book to help photographers, graphic designers, architects, and anyone working with photographs to understand how the basic functions of 2D and 3D software work and why. Though I wish there were even more photos of some of the paintings and photographs he refers to, there are many great pictures of paintings, photos, and rendered scenes to illustrate what he describes in the text. This is definitely one of the more thoughtful books on digital images and there's a lot of good stuff here to think about.

I can't believe that no one has written a review here of this essential book! Anyone creating, curating, writing about, or simply trying to appreciate computer-based art work should own this text. Mitchell weaves together theory, history, and technique to explain the fundamentals of this new field. His scholarship and knowledge of the area are unbeatable.

The releasement tape is a perfect place to start when beginning a new start. Its is inspiring, hopeful, and energizing. Its gives hope for a better day and helps to promote a new vision when you are starting again. The releasement tape is relaxing, rejuvinating, and comforting. It is thought provoking, it helped me let go and let God. It also help me to call on my inner spirit to guide me through some tough times. I recommend this tape as the prelude to starting over in life.

Releasement is a beautiful therapuetic tool, that is easy to listen to and an enhancement that would help create your desires and increase awareness. Personally I alternate between Releasement, and another of Dr. Gibson's C'D's, The Miracle Prayer, which is also a vibrationally energetic meditation!

An inspirational biography about a woman astronomer who in the early 1900's discovered the comet which now bears her name.....Maria's Comet. We read this chapter book to our kindergarten Montessori class on Cape Cod and the children were quite taken with Miss Mitchell's life and her accomplishments. One of our 6 year old students travelled to the island, to Maria's home and observatory and returned to the class to show photos and tell of what see had seen. Often it is hard to find

quality stories with heroines for young children. This one is top notch!

This book was about a female named Maria Mitchell. She lived in Nantucket, Massachusetts in the 1800s. Most girls weren't allowed to go to school back then. Maria and her family were Quakers. Quakers believed that girls should go to school.

She liked to study. She was taught by her father, an avid amateur astonomer. Most nights she looked through a telescope or just used her eyes to look into space.

Her first real career was as a teacher at her own school, and then she worked at a library. When she was older, she became the first woman professor at Vasser Women's College. She discovered a comet.

I liked this book very much because it is a very interesting biography. It went all through her life without telling too many dates. I learned a lot.

Fun murder mystery; like many others, not altogether believable in the real world, but entirely cohesive in its own. The heroine, Merry Mitchell, has a true past we learn about and learn to care about. The characters are not, for the most part, caricatures or stereotypical but drawn from life, believable. Definitely a possibility as the first novel of a series; whether Granger can continue the writing of believable characters we care about ~ especially Mitchell and Alan Markby, the police representative ~ remains to be seen. I hope so.

This may be the first in this wonderfully entertaining series, but it remains one of the very best.

The characters immediately strike you as real and quirky, with great potential. They are interesting and likeable. The writing is good, and the setting of the small village of eccentric people is excellent. The writing tangs with realism, even though this is generally accepted as being a not-very-realistic sub-genre. (Although, in my opinion, it actually is. The category of the village mystery is filled with realism. Lots of different people all living in close proximity to each other and no one else is bound to cause...interesting, things to happen. The potential for crime in a village is just as real in a village as it is a large city. However, while in a city you could have many different murders being investigated at once, in a village, rules of proportion cut the number of murders down to one. (Or thereabouts.) And as such, you can bring across in your novel every single aspect of the society in which this murder has occured, as the society is such a small one.

The plot here is great. The characters realistic. The solution unexpected. And the style typically Agatha Christie's Miss Marple-esque.

Great, great fun.

Yehuda Amichai, on the one hand an Isreali soldier, and, on the other hand a lyric poet, expressed his own voice in his psalm-like poems. He remained the identity as an Isreali and a patriot too, but he won't hide up his personal voice, expecially his hatred towards war. In some of his poems, we can even hear his innerkmost soliliquy. The translation version of Stephen Mitchell and Chana Bloch is unquestionably the best one, which remains vitality of the original version.

Reading Yehuda Amichai in Hebrew is wonderful. His sense of word is matched only by the way in which his whimsy and depth reflect Israel. But translations in English have been so bad that the translators, editors, and publishers of such editions should probably be exiled to a supermarket in the suburbs where they are forced to listen to Rod McKuen all day. This, on the other hand, is poetry. I attribute the success of this volume to the fact that both Chana Bloch and Stephen Mitchell, the translators, are such outstanding poets and translators in their own rights. A few of my favorite poems are missing, but so many wonderful ones are here; reading them in this English is like discovering them all over again, and discovered how good he is all over again.

Sins of the Fathers

There is a level of awakening that is imparted into one's heart as each page is read. This book has elements of history, elements of pain, elements of a burden for Britain as a nation, for Europe and for countries of the world where there has been marginalisation.

My heart cried as I learnt of the "Sins of the Fathers" because this book does expose the truth about the sins. It also speaks of the good that the Fathers of this nation (Britain) did. There are several relevant examples that act as eye openers. The book is British in its focus but truly global in its context.

No one should read this book, if they are unwilling to pray. The real response to this book should be in prayer. Prayer, repentance, God's forgiveness and Grace are the main themes in this book.

I finished reading "Sins of the Fathers" just before landing at Heathrow Airport. The timing couldn't have been better. This book gives Americans critical to understanding of who our forefathers were and what drove their decision making. It helped me understand why I was treated the way I was during my first trip to the U.K. and the stress in relationships in culture and race in America.

The authors keep you involved with their many personal experiences. It is a must read for anyone who travels the world and interacts with different people groups.