I found this to be a nice little book written in a familiar manner. Very good for a beginner desiring a bit of tea information or someone who enjoys a spot of tea. Attractive and compact.

Mr. Gluck weaves us a tapestry of many and shifting tones. Offers us a city entered at dusk, or at dawn, and perhaps midnight. These stories together and apart speak to a rich internal life. One as comfortable with the sensual as the intellectual. As evocative of the moment as much as history. A book moving in many directions and in all directions moving. Thank you, Mr. Gluck.

I am only half way finished with the book and I have learned so much from it already. The edition I have is 1982, and other than the interest rates and other figures being off from current rates I can find nothing wrong. It covers pretty much everything you need in financing a home or a condo. I will be a first time home buyer and I feel much more confident regarding the process. A key phrase I will remember is "how can you NOT afford to buy a house"?

I found this book to be very informative without boring me. It's combination of interesting tea facts, pieces of literature pertaining to tea, and descriptions of the different varieties of tea, kept me reading even though I already knew quite a bit about tea. This Little Book would make a great coffee (or tea) table addition, or the perfect gift for the curious tea drinker in any family.

I first discovered James Barber's cookbooks while living in Canada in the late 1970s. They are not by any means "haute cuisine." But they are delightful, full of clear, down-to-earth. eminently edible recipes that call for common ingredients and simple preparation, and enlivened with humorous, candid observations and recollections, and amusing cartoon illustrations. I lost my own copies some years ago and have been periodically checking used book sites, etc. with no luck. Am delighted to find they've been reissued and plan to repurchase them. While very sophisticated cooks might not find them all that interesting, young and "just starting out" cooks with limited expertise, resources, and equipment would find them enjoyable and useful, while "old hippies" and baby-boomers who are nostalgic for the flavor (literally) of the '60s and '70s would find them delightful.

I read "Going for Coffee" as part of an English class at the University of Regina. Although I am not a big fan of poerty, I was intrigued and sympathetic to many of the poems compiled within this anthology.

In his introduction, Tom Wayman states that accurate representaions of work are rarely treated in television, movies, and novels. He goes on to show that this may have been a driving force for the 93 authors contained within this book to write about their own, "accurate, insider's" experience of work. My class and I analysed many of the rewarding, disgusting, hilarious, and humiliating situations and feelings portrayed through these poems and found accurate detail, a full range of human emotion, and relation to the jobs we have worked. I found myself thinking, "I know how he feels," while reading many of these poems.

"Going for Coffee" is an excellent anthology of poetry spanning a diverse spectrum of the labour market: paid or unpaid; assembly line workers, oil riggers, doctors, managers, teachers, farmers, housewives and more. This books has something for just about everyone and I would recommend it for both academic and personal reading.

The cover says this is an "African sketchbook" and that it is - no touristy recommendations, no diatribe on the author's accomplishments - it's simply a novel filled with the "heat, beautty, luxury, cruelty, squalor, sorrow and saintly generosity" that Africa is.

This book is brilliant read about the "real" Africa - and a pleasant change from the "tourist" image that is so often thrust upon us.

Llewellyn's gift of description is so good - you can almost smell Africa wafting through the pages as you read.

Officer Rubino has worked in a community whose entire infrastructure has many needs, and his starting with the belabored police culture is very appropriate. Although this book was written in 1998, I have just now discovered this author. His constructive suggestions on the placement of improvements would impart the meat of a good documentary, and his personal experience with the use of humor could supply Ron Howard with excellent tragi-comedy for a film about real, hard-working, and principled officers.
The community is my home town, and yes, it has enjoyed low ratings in the "cities one would love to live in" polls over the years (friends have mailed the survey results to me from as far away as Manila, chuckling about Lawrence). With severe requirements for state and federal assistance, Lawrence is still full of wonderful people. Ray Rubino is a Lawrentian who is educated, insightful and talented. A first effort, but a first-rate account.

This scholarly work first examines the discovery & establishment of tea & tea culture in China, in particular the profound influence of Lu Yu in developing a Chinese tea tradition. The remainder of the book is devoted to explaining the development of the peculiarly Japanese tea culture which grew from Chinese beginnings following tea's introduction to Japan from China during the Tang Dynasty. The book is well illustrated with some superb full colour plates, and a number of black & white photographs.

The author is the fifteenth generation tea-master entrusted with preserving the history and practising the art of the Japanese tea traditions.

I enjoyed the simple approach that Moore used in handling his study. I had just previously studied several theological textbooks. The terminology and frequent use of Greek and Hebrew words made understanding them difficult. I didn't have that problem with Moore's book. It did not, however delve as deeply into theological arguments. If someone has questions about Theology and doesn't want to spend a lot of time with a dictionary this would be a great place to start.