Grimes does an excellent job of describing the processes, and the paperwork that drives them. He goes further by describing the consequences when things aren't done right. All of which is written in a manner that is easy to understand, even for the uninitiated. This is a must read for any future Project Manager or just someone who wants to get a handle on what's happening behind the scenes of any construction project.

This book is the best anthology for any beginning poet. It pays homage to poetry's past, while honoring its future. Anyone interested in poetry written just before it bumped against technology and computers will find this a fascinating and necessary book. Great language from a great time in American history.

Contemporary American Realist Drawings: The Jalane And RichardDavidson Collection At The Art Institute Of Chicago superbly showcasesone of the finest collections on the subject extent today. Jalane and Richard Davidson collected drawings from outstanding assembly of American artists ranging from Sigmund Abeles and George Atkinson, to James Winn and Richard Ziemann. Contemporary American Realist Drawings showcases 125 drawings drawn from the Davidson collection of about 300 and are organized by subject matter: Self-Portraits, Portraits, Nudes, Still Lifes, Landscapes, and Other Subjects. The reader is treated to an encyclopedic overview of the many ways in which specific drawing materials may be used from silverpint to charcoal, pastel to black & white. Contemporary American Realist Drawings is further enhanced for the art enthusiast with a Preface by James N. Wood and Douglas W. Druick; an Introduction by Mark Pascale; biographies of every artist by Raymond Hernandez-Duran; and a major essay by Ruth fine about the works represented in the collection. Highly recommended for personal, academic, and community library art history collections.

I have been playing keyboards for about three years. I've taken a few lessons, but I'm mostly self-taught. The more I have learned, the more I want to know. You get to the point where you would like some structure. Both structure in the sense of an orderly accumulation of knowledge and in the sense of where does what I know fit in?

This is your book. It starts off very basic- how scales are constructed. Good comprehensible explanations of diatonic triads. The first explanation of modal scales that made sense to me. Good practice recognizing and writing inversions. Also four part chords, suspended and altered chords.

The best part is that after I completed this book I found my practicing much improved because I had a far better understanding of what I was playing.

I highly recommend this book for beginners or early intermediate players.

Mark continues from Contemporary Music Theory Level 1 to take you through chapters on 'II-V-1' progressions, 5-part chords, substitutions, harmonic analysis, voiceleading, 'upper structure' chords, and pentatonic & blues scale applications in this Level 2 continuation. Again, like the Level 1 book, Contemporary Music Theory Level 2 has very detailed explanations and exercises to test what you've learnt. An excellent series of books by Mark Harrison.

For anyone interested in contemporary women's writing, this collection of essays is a must! In moving across the usual publishing categories that are based around nation, race, and poetic school or grouping (such as Language writing), this volume does not sacrifice an awareness of the cultural specificity of poetic production when exploring the various formal and thematic crosscurrents occurring between poetries being written today. Essays broach a range of issues, including the relationship of gender to authorship, community, and the process of reading. I would recommend this book to any who enjoyed Lynn Keller and Christanne Miller's "Feminist Measures: Soundings in Poetry and Theory".

This book excently enterprets the godddess' point of view. Its a must have for anyone,

I am a culinary student, and was given this by a friend- what a wonderful resourse! (be advised I did find one or two editing quirks). I really enjoyed the 'overview' of the resturants, recipes, suggested menues and layout. Very Wonderful cookbook (tho the Montery is the weakest of the series). I got an 'A' using the Cajun recipes from this for a final project!

Miller is world famous for his Coyote Cafe. Here is his offering for drinks that are intense, flavorful, colorful, healthy, inexpensive, and non-timeconsuming to prepare and enjoy.

There are sections on Non-Alcoholoic Fruit Juice Drinks, Liquados and Lemonades, Coolers and Punches, Power Drinks and Fruit Smoothies and Fruit Juice Cocktails.

Try The Raven, a luscious concoction of pear nectar, black currant juice and sparkling water. It's refreshing, unique and packed with great flavor and color.

Also, tried so far these I would buy the book for alone: Liquado de Pina (Pineapple); White Peach Lemonade, Plum Cider Cooler, Mango Fusion and Lucindas Guadalajara Punch.

Ten Speed Press cookbooks (of which in my collection many of the best are) produces just outstanding style and quality: e.g. Miller's Red Sage, Tetsuya, and Charlie Trotters. This is in that same quality: great paper, photography and layout.

This will see year around use, especially in warmer times, but also in winter the smoothies can cheer one up.

I am a very recent baseball fan, partially as a result of Mark Schraf and this book. He was my chemistry professor this summer and I learned of his book and bought it for my dad for his birthday, later buying one for myself, too. Every poem in this book is beautifully written. Even though I don't know the story behind all the poems, Mr. Schraf and his book have really opened me up to baseball, and I am eager to learn the hidden meanings of these poems. Each poem is unique in it's own way: some are insanely funny, some sad and sentimental. He uses many different styles of poetry, too. I think everyone needs a dose of baseball, especially by this intelligent, creative author.