I purchased this book only recently and tried it out over the past holiday. I can now heartily endorse it. Ms. Morgan has put together a collection of easy to follow recipes that will liven up your Thanksgiving table. Many look like your standard fare, but have been jazzed up with new preparation techniques. A perfect example is the Chiffonade of Brussel Sprouts. I have to have brussel sprouts on my table every year, but was so bored with them. I followed her technique for shredding them, then sauteeing - they came out like a warm slaw, perfectly cooked and offset with the hazelnuts - I had no leftovers at all! I will be making that dish again, for sure.

I primarily purchased the book for her section on vegetarian entrees and again, she did not let me down. The stuffed acorn squash was, as she stated, fantastic, and my vegetarian guest was thrilled.

I do have one complaint/suggestion: I wish that each recipe had said how far in advance each recipe could be prepared ahead. I believe in a book about holiday cooking, where most people begin to cook several days in advance, knowing how far in advance each thing could be prepared would have made this book ideal for anyone preparing the holiday feast. I have enough experience to figure it out myself, but not everyone does.

I believe this book is an excellent buy, however. If you like Holiday cooking and are looking to change things up a bit, you should buy this book. You will enjoy it, and so will your guest.

Morgan offers up a wide variety of mouthwatering dishes that are easy to make and (usually) don't require an extra trip to the store or a quest for some obscure ingredient. There are main course recipes for meat-eaters and vegetarians alike, and she even includes ideas for leftovers. Best of all is the brined turkey, which is life-changing. I'll never eat turkey any other way.

In "The Thanksgiving Table" Diane Morgan has kicked Thanksgiving up a notch, maybe three.

Not only has she included recipes for some of the more traditional items for Thanksgiving dinner but she has some really interesting recipes that take the traditional and give it a slight twist, Shirley LeBlonds stuffing, for example. The twist isn't in the recipes alone but in some of the table treatments as well, burlap and corrugated cardboard on a holiday table? But it works!

"The Thanksgiving Table" includes a history of the first Thanksgiving, including the menu, how traditional do you want to get? It also includes a timetable that stretches back a couple of weeks before the event, so you aren't rushing at the last minute. I feel I must mention the recipes for leftovers, I can hardly wait.

Along with the fantastic recipes are some of the most incredible photographs I have ever seen in a cookbook.

This is a must have for all of us who enjoy entertaining on Thanksgiving. "The Thanksgiving Table" has something for everyone, a step by step for the first timer wanting to start their own Thanksgiving tradition, or it can be used to inspire us old timers with new ideas and a fresh perspective. Well done Diane!

The poetic begining of the book was the best part. I especially liked the way Forrestor used the displays to describe human nature. Foresstor has tremendous insight into human nature; maybe only the pessimistic side. I thoughthe was long winded when he got into his own views. But then again that is my own opion.

I couldn't care less about the political essays -- but what he has to say about creativity and criticism is better than anything I've read in modern "how to write" books.

Skip the politics if you want (I did); if you want insight into art, specifically writing, buy this book and his ASPECTS OF THE NOVEL.

E.M. Forster is better known as a writer than as a great thinker.
This volume contains most of his nonfiction writings and thus introduces us to a different side of Forster. Some of the pieces, it is true, are on writing, but most relevant for today is probably his political thought.

Forster provides us with a window into the world of the nineteen thirties where democracy was perceived as a fragile and precious object in danger of being blown away by the forces of fascism and communism. Still, in "What I believe" and "Three Anti-Nazi broadcasts" Forster reaffirms his belief in this form of government.

Democracy is important, he argues, because it allows criticism. He argues that "parliament is often sneered at because it is a Talking Shop. I believe in it because it is a talking shop. I believe in the Private Member who makes himself a nuisance. He gets snubbed and is told that he is cranky or ill- informed, but he does expose abuses which would otherwise never have been mentioned".

Forster argues forcefully against hero worship and against the cult of "great men". Although rooted in a bygone era, much of his thinking retains some relevance today.

I'll be using this book to teach my 5th semester Computer Engineering students about SQL in a DB2 environment. The organization is excellent and the level of discussion is clear. My students need to learn about dynamic and embedded SQL as well as deal with the specifics of IBM's approach. Chamberlin should be congratulated for his approach and I hope that he continues to update his book as the DB2 product changes.

I have worked with serveral different RDBMS packages, but up until the last year never with DB2. Every database has their own SQL idiosyncracies and C/C++ interfaces so I needed a guide that would work both for someone new to the DB2 database but also for an experienced programmer.

I found Chamberlin's book to fit that need exactly. It covers everything from the basics on up to the in-depth details of database application programming. I have never been in a situation when I could not find the information I needed. I have also noticed that it is the resource of choice for our databse administrators.

"Using the New DB2" has great examples, ranging from simple SELECT statements to setting up full-scale applications making database calls with a host language. The text is very readable and informative. You will not find yourself falling asleep because an explanation was dry or too long or too short, too simple or too complex. It really fits all needs.

I give it 2 thumbs up!

This book offers a lucid presentation of the major features of the IBM DB2 for common servers products, which run on UNIX and PC platforms. The emphasis is on support for newer SQL features such as triggers and stored procedures that make DB2 an "object-relational" system. The book, which is replete with tips and examples, is useful both as a reference and a how-to guide. I would not recommend this book for beginners, i.e., those without some hands-on experience with a relational Database Management System; although the book is clearly written, the subject matter covered is broad and necessarily compressed, even within 682 pages. This book was recommended by IBM as a study aid for their new DB2 professional certification program, before the release of the DB2 Certification Guide for common servers book

This book is beautifully designed and laid out. But this does not work best for actually planning out a wedding. It works best as a wedding keepsake - similar to those baby books. It only leaves room for absolute notes. You should already know the location, the date, the dress, etc. by the time you make any notes in this book. If you are still searching for locations, caters, the bridal dress, etc. and you would like to make notes on the various places - you can't with this book. Yes, they leave room for "notes" but that becomes very disorganize. You only have room for ONE name/address for each important category. I'm still glad I bought it but I will still need to buy another real PLANNER. This book, however, is conveniently spiral bound and with a beautiful hardbound cover. Sections are divided with 6 tabs (very helpful). A single slightly-expandable pocket in the back to add extra items. Although no calendar - it does break things down with a "to do" list in a monthly planner and a space for your own to do list. In a place marked "vital information" it has just that. You can write the name, address, contact, phone, etc. of the ceremony, officiant, photographer and anyone else you can think of that are needed for your wedding. This IS a wonderful, beautiful and HELPFUL wedding book - I just warn that this is only for those who already know mostly everything about their wedding plans.

My best friend gave me this planner as a gift when she learned I was engaged. I was so delighted with the beauty of the pictures and layout that it made me happy just to thumb through it. It was helpful as an organizer (especially for a not-too-organized person). But the thing I loved about it the most was the style of the photography. I am in love with black-and-white photograpy, and I knew that I wanted the pictures of my wedding to be different than the typical, cliche photographs. This book inspired the style of my photographs,and they came out to be breathtaking images that I have received numerous compliments on. My brother is proposing to his girlfriend soon, and I plan to order this book for her.

This book is not only beautifully laid-out, with lovely photos by John Dolan, but it's useful! It makes wedding planning simple and organized - at a time when emotions can take over. Use the charts and then take time to appreciate the fine craft of the subtle tones in the photos to catch the moments of peace and grace in an important day.

Work Left Undone helps readers understand the choices which they have made and how attitudes (both positive and negative), stereotypes, and personal feelings have affected the direction of their lives. Readers learn the value of planning for the future and making conscious forward-thinking decisions based on real abilities and real hopes and aspirations instead of leaving life up to lucky or unlucky accidents of fate. What we want for our daughters, what we hope for as we educate girls is to give them the confidence and ability to make these choices without regret and to value their work in their family, the community and corporate world. Sally Reis' work accomplishes much to this end.

This book should be read by everyone, esp. gifted women. As a researcher in this area myself and author of Where Have All the Smart Women Gone? I concur that there are some very hard choices. The women in my research told me and over and over about wanting to go in one direction, but being discouraged from doing so. I called it Double Bind. This is a comforting, affirming book, yet also an academically well written book. Please read it.

Work Left Undone: Choices and Compromises of Talented Females by Sally Reis. Creative Learning Press.

Sally Reis is chiefly known today for her leadership in the National Association for Gifted Children, her professorial work at the University of Connecticut, and as a research fellow of the National Research Center on Gifted and Talented, but her career spans nearly three decades and includes many years as both a junior high school English teacher and as a teacher in programs for gifted and talented students. In 1976, she worked with a sixth-grade gifted girl, Heather, who designed and built a robot. Following publicity about the robot in the local press, many adults came to the school to meet Heather and see her product. After a time, Heather came to Reis and shared a disappointing conclusion she had reached. Women talked to her about how she designed the robot, the parts she used, and how it operated. Men invariably asked her if she had created the robot to do housework. Reis counseled Heather that she surely must be mistaken, to which the child responded, "You just didn't notice." In succeeding weeks Reis, aware of Heather's concern, became more observant and discovered to her dismay that the child was absolutely correct. This early passage inWork Left Undone: Choices & Compromises of Talented Females serves as a touchstone, revealing the essence of the book. Reis had deliberately chosen a women's college for her own college education and the incident described took place in 1976, at a time when the issue of women's rights was a dominant national media theme, and yet even she had not picked up on the subtle stereotyping that was occurring when visitors came to Heather's school to observe her engineering project. As the student charged: she just didn't notice. Reis writes of the lesson learned: "This experience caused me to consciously notice more and assume less." The failure of contemporary society and its institutions to notice stereotyping and the resulting prejudices that work against females in our society is one of the dominant themes of Work Left Undone. One cannot read this book and leave its pages unaware of the lack of equity for females, and especially gifted females, in America. In part one of the book, the author explores the specific issues and barriers that face gifted and talented women. She shares a massive amount of data from studies over the past three decades that make a convincing case that different and unequal conditions exist for males and females in our classrooms and work places. Males vocally dominate classrooms from kindergarten through graduate school and receive far more attention than do females. Gifted women may face even more discrimination in college, especially in science and math programs, where the faculty is predominantly male, and often foreign males, who may bring to the classroom cultural stereotypes about the supposed inferiority of women or the "inappropriateness" of women in traditional male roles and fields. Gifted females receive mixed, often confusing, messages even from loving parents. One of Reis' female graduate students complained: "My parents expected me to get good grades, but they expected my brother to be a doctor." Other gifted women noted that they were expected by their families to bring home straight A grades, but were simultaneously told by adults, including their parents, that they should not be competitive in class, talk too much, or argue with their teachers, all three behaviors which are positively associated with male students and importantly contribute to teachers' perception of superior male students. The work place is also not immune from stereotyping that leads to discrimination. Women are woefully absent from corporate leadership in this country, and a recent study of those women who have become executives indicate that "male stereotyping and preconceptions of women" and the exclusion of women from informal networks of communication in business settings are the chief barriers to the corporate advancement of women. The six chapters that comprise the greatest portion of Work Left Undone represent the heart of Reis' life work: twenty-five years of research of gifted and talented women across the lifespan. The section begins with an exploration of the particular factors affecting gifted girls in elementary and secondary schools. The case studies are richly textured and often provide poignant testimony such as a gifted young women's assessment of her K-12 school career: "I have been placed in many average classes, especially up until the junior high school level, in which I have been spit on, ostracized, and verbally abused for doing my homework on a regular basis, for raising my hand in class, and particularly for receiving outstanding grades. (p. 131). Reis supports the individual case studies with both research data and analyses that build page after page into an inescapable indictment of the status quo. Two vital chapters examine the particular issues that face gifted females in math and science and from culturally diverse and low socioeconomic circumstances. No one who works in education should miss these critical chapters which reveal information and conditions that beg for attention, for solutions, and for further research. For example, what educator does not need to know that the self-esteem of Hispanic girls may decrease more than any other cultural group from elementary school to high school? What gifted educator cannot benefit from learning that African American gifted girls may exhibit less a loss of confidence in their abilities than any other population of gifted girls? And, especially, do we not need to be aware that teachers continue to attribute success in math and science in males to ability but attribute similar success by females as the artifact of hard work? Chapters about gifted women across the lifespan speak to the particular conditions, problems and successes of women artists, women in conventional careers, and older American women who have achieved eminence after the age of of 55. Having amassed a compelling case about the obstacles to both worldly success and personal fulfillment of gifted women throughout the book, Reis turns to solutions and recommendations in the final chapters of Work Left Undone. She considers such critical issues as peer pressure and the internalized feelings females have about their accomplishments and the negative impact that concern with physical appearance can have on gifted females. She outlines and describes programs and resources that are available to gifted young women. She considers the merits of women's colleges and single-sex classes, and suggests ways of helping gifted girls recognize that most women work outside their homes in their lifetimes. The wisdom the author has achieved from her life's work is fully on display in the final conclusions, recommendations and suggestions. Reis' recommendations are ever thoughtful, well reasoned and insightful. In the final chapter, the author provides an annotated list of programs and resources of merit. The entries range from mentorship programs for gifted girls to books, including biographies, current fiction, personal development titles, to outstanding math and science web sites. Work Left Undone is compelling reading. The scale and depth of research Reis brings to bear on the subject of the development of gifted females is simply awesome. No one will leave the pages of this book without great respect for her accomplishments as a researcher. Much of the research was conducted by the author, working alone or in collaboration with others, across 25 years, but she also seamlessly integrates her own impressive research with mountains of important studies from the diverse worlds of business, the arts, and education. Reis' scholarship is impressive, but so too is her command of the language. Another virtue of this book is its pleasant readability. There is nothing pedantic about her writing. Once begun, I could not put the book down. I wanted to keep turning its pages, learning still new facts, hearing yet another fascinating personal story. The author's use of case studies is a particularly wise decision. The human stories cause the statistics to resonate with the reader and take on personal significance. Indeed, she writes so well and explains research so cogently that the reader experiences the feeling or sensation of having a fascinating, enjoyable personal conversation with a remarkably gifted person who just happens to love to share the passion of her life work wtih others. And, of course, that is what this fine book is all about. It is about gifted females, thousands of them, but it is also one woman's odyssey, one gifted female's life journey which is brilliantly shared in these pages. Sally Reis has long been recognized as one of the most important contemporary leaders in our field. She has certainly been one of the most frequent and respected contributors to our journals. But, with the publication of Work Left Undone, she joins the ranks of Leta Hollingworth, Lewis Terman,

The Hockey Almanac contains individual statistics, and reviews on 500 current players in the National Hockey Leauge. It is a great source of obtaining a view on an individual players "strengths" and "weaknesses". The Hockey Almanac also includes such pertenent information as typical trading card values as well as team overviews and information. I especially like the "Prospects" section where young and upcoming prospects are reviewed. I highly recommend this book for the fantasay hockey league player as well as any avid hockey fan.

The hockey almanac is a complete guide of all the NHL players. It tell each individauls strentghs and weaknesses, as well as what the next season has in store for them. I recommend this book to any person who wants to know more about their favorite hockey players or all.

It's not a bad book if you are into this type of slave thing. I thought the first two wives he "tutored" seemed to enjoy it lot more than a normal person would. It's just humiliating to women but I am sure men would enjoy it. But in the end it is a woman who turns the tables on him and I enjoyed that very much. As slave books go it is kind of mild.

that I have ever read, and, trust me I've read a lot of them. The author, Henry Morgan, manages to spin a tale of adventure, torture, S/M, dominance and submission using modern day Afganistan, Pakistan and the UK, and injects the erotic spiciness of the region into a full fledged novel ....

Our hero, David, meets up with a long lost schoolmate, Justin, in the UK, and Justin is then very very surprised to learn that David has set up a very successfull school, of course in a mansion in the hinterlands of London, where he takes posession of wives and daughters and teaches them the wonderfull art of total and utter submission to their husbands or furture husbands.

The book then details the events in Afganistan and the middle East that led to David starting his special school. After graduating as a doctor, our hero went to Afganistan to help the poor where he was captured by rebels, tribal chieftans and even the Russians with the task of keeping the female prisoners alive while they were being 'tortured' into full submission. In the midst of battle David manages to escape to Pakistan where he meets up with a married banker who soon tells him that the submission tortures were not to be frowned upon but rather considered a necessity in the training of the women folk in their part of the world.

Although David has morals and scruples, from the beginning to the end of the book the reader certainly enjoys his plight as hed bends, twists and shreds those nasty morals to be able to enjoy the moment.

Generally when I hear S/M, torture, dominance etc etc in a book I usually run, anot walk, away from the purchase, but on this book tha author has produced and absolutlely fabulous piece of work mainaining eroticism of the scenes without overdoing the violence etc etc .... I got the distinct feeling that I was reading a Vicorian erotic novel set into the events of was and burkhas today .... what a fabulous book and a must have for our little erotic book library .....

PS. I don't imagine this book will remain in stock for long like all the great erotics sold on Amazon ....

I thought I knew a good bit about sparking my creative juices, but Aha! showed me through fun and often frustratingly challenging puzzles that there's more than one way to view a situation. The only problem is that now I lok for hidden meanings in almost everything I read...but that's well worth the price for being able to now think about things in 3D.

A fun way to sharpen your creative wits. These word puzzles encourage flexible thinking, and induce the "Aha! effect" - when the lightbulb finally goes on over your head and everything becomes clear. Although some are easier than others, thinking outside the box is required for these challenging and clever brainteasers! A unique collection that will truly inspire creative thought.

This is a very good book, but it only covers the first three-quarters of the century. Minimalism is the latest movement that it really covers comprehensively. After that, most composers recieve only two or three lines of text. This is, of course, understandable, given when this book was written. Just be warned that more recent developments in music are often ignored or not given the attention they deserve.h

Morgan's book is the best that I have found for an overview of the entire 20th century in "classical" music. He divides his analysis into 3 logical sections:

Part 1. Beyond Tonality: From 1900 to World War I

Part 2. Reconstruction and New Systems: Between the Wars

Part 3. Innovation and Fragmentation: From WWII to the Present

This allows for some nuance that a simple list of composers often misses. For instance, Schoenberg's "atonal revolution" is covered in Part 1, along with the "new tonalities" of Stravinsky and Bartok. Part 2 covers the origin of the "twelve-tone system," but makes clear that it did not become influential until years later with the "serial revolution" in France, led by Messiaen and Boulez, in Part 3.

As others have noted, Morgan is not as strong on the more recent period, partly because the book was published in 1991 and thus misses such phenomena as Schnittke's surge of popularity, especially in Russia and Europe, after the collapse of the Soviet regime. I recommend two other books along with Morgan: 1) Gann's "American Music in the Twentieth-Century," which covers developments in the U.S. in greater detail, thus including for instance one of my favorites, Roger Reynolds, and 2) Griffiths' masterful "Modern Music and After," which begins after the Second World War.

As we end the 20th century, we may not realize that 20th century music covers the same time span as the 19th century Romantic music period. Have we grasped the meaning of modern music. To do this one needs to understand the history as well as the dynamics of 20th century music. Here is a book that fills the bill. Not only does Mr. Morgan discuss the growth and change in 20th century music but he does it in it's historical context of our maturing as a world. For many the atonality of 20th century music is hard to grasp, especially when concert artists and orchestras continue to emphasize in their repatoire 19th century music. But as the world changes so will music. A book to awaken your interest in 20th century music and the composers who were the leaders of this period.