What a wonderful cookbook! We got it as a gift from parents who make regular trips to wine country in New York and have been delighted with it ever since.

Recipes are clearly laid out and the "degree of difficulty" ratings are accurate (unlike lots of cookbooks that seem to assume the reader is already a master chef!) "Grapevine" also does an excellent job of indicating which items can be made ahead of time and frozen (or refrigerated) and which need to be prepared immediately before. There's a good blend of recipes that can be made from stuff that we all have in our kitchens and those that require a special trip to the grocery store. The sample menues in front of the book are also a hoot and are a real help in putting together meals for two or for a party. Our favorites include the Glen Iris Spinach Salad, the Spinach Squares, Chicken Cordon Bleu, and the Heath Bar Crunch Cake!

³TICKLE DAY: POEMS FROM FATHER GOOSE is a bright and colorful collection of poems from the gifted pen of Charles Ghigna, aptly dubbed ŒFather Goose¹.² --The Washington Post ³Charles Ghigna¹s lively, joyous, and quite imaginative poems of TICKLE DAY: POEMS FROM FATHER GOOSE invite young readers to snuggle in and savor each page.² --American Bookseller ³Like Robert Louis Stevenson¹s A CHILD¹S GARDEN OF VERSES so popular a generation ago, TICKLE DAY: POEMS FROM FATHER GOOSE, by nationally acclaimed poet Charles Ghigna, features delightful, story-telling rhymes. They are told simply, with the kind of charming detail that makes them instantly memorable.² --Birmingham Post-Herald

This story is as warm as the lovely quilt which grandmother makes for her granddaughter. The child takes it back to the city with her. She also takes fond memories of visiting with the grandmother on the mountain. This would be a fine Christmas present from grandmothers to granddaughters.

A droll comment on the meaning of our past through the eyes of a lost soul. Moore's narrative takes us through an unusual quest for purpose and fulfillment in an American culture devoid of both, while managing humor along the way. His landscapes are brightly lit and vivid, his characters, people we have known. "Too Much of Nothing" can, eventually, be something. A wonderful read.

I loved it. A must read for cat and dog lovers alike.

After being abandoned by their owners, the dogs and cats of the Town Moor must learn to survive - each other, and the Dread Booga-...

Hebrew lettering is printed larger than some for ease of study.

Baruch Ata Adonai Elohenu Melech ha-olam asher kid'shanu b'mitzvotav v'tzeevanu la-asoke b'divrey Torah

This play leaves the reader with a feeling of despair. How could there be such evil in the world as is in Iago's heart? How could there be such jealousy as with Roderigo? And what of Desdemona's undying love...so powerful that with her last breath she denies that it was indeed her husband that took her life. The flood of emotion and pain in this book leave the reader feeling a great desperation for humanity. However, the reader will find humor in the irony and figurative language that is woven throughout the dialogue. This play exposes the darkest side of man with several thrilling murders and continuous deception. It also colors the most desirable characteristics of man...devotion, trust, and love. Read this play!

This book has all the ingredients to help communities move forward. It is simple and consice with lots of success stories. It gives a simple overview of the elements of success. It is an easy read that will help any community plan a strategy for progress.

If you are interested in Trilobites, ancient arthropods that are the signature of the Paleozoic, then this classic work, written by the world experts of the time is a must for your collection. Not only is there an illustrated catalogue of the families and genera of trilobites known at the time (10,000 species vs today's 15,000+), but such hidden treasures as a review of many of the Burgess Shale arthropods (then considered Trilobitomorpha and therefore included in the work), and detailed discussions and descritpions of the major features of trilobites, their biology and ecology and their evolution over time are presented. While many of the conjectures are different from today's (more enlightened?) considerations, they provide tantalizing insight on the difficulties of paleontological science: deducing the nature of a world that has not existed for hundreds of millions of years.

Such classical trilobite workers as H.B. Whittington, R.C. Moore, and F. Rasetti to name a few, had a hand in this: the still-standing single definitive source for trilobitophiles.

A revision of the treatise on trilobites is beginning to emerge (Kaesler 1997), and two of the most primitive orders (Agnostida and Redlichiida) were revised in Volume One of the revision. We won't see a completed revision of the 1959 Treatise (in two more volumes) until sometime in the first decade of this new millenium.

In conclusion, for its current value as a trilobite information source, for its historical value as the world view on trilobites at the dawn of the 1960s, and for its >1000 individual drawings and figures of trilobites and their kin, this is a must for the trilobite-lover's library.

respectfully submitted, Dr. Sam Gon III

At last, volume one of the long-awaited update to Moore's 1959 epic.  It is difficult to understand the monumental amount of work in one of these volumes of the Treatise without reading through it.  Take the chapter on ontogeny, for example.   How do we know how a trilobite developed?  After all, we can hardly watch one.   Only by collecting hundreds of fossils - at first, no doubt, misidentified as different species - and comparing them, across collection, institution, and probably national boundaries: work which may take multiple workers decades. The 530 pages of this volume represents whole lifetimes of dedicated research.

The Treatise is a technical reference for professional palaeontologists so you will want to be a very enthusiastic amateur before you consider buying it. If you are, though, then this is definitely the definitive word on trilobite morphology, habit, ontogeny, evolution and classification available today. It is not a complete systematic review of the whole class, however: This is the first volume of a work which is expected to stretch to three. Systematic descriptions are given for the Agnostida and Redlichiida only.

Readers familiar with the 1959 version will first notice that the familiar line drawings have been almost totally replaced by excellent (at least 600 dpi) photographs of actual fossils. As before, taxonomic descriptions are provided down to generic level, providing authorship, synonymy, diagnostic morphology, type species and provenance.