Frank R. Giordano, an expert on the burgeoning wine industry in Texas, has assembled a first-rate collection of recipes and wine pairings. All the top chefs in Houston, Dallas, and San Antonio have provided step-by-step outlines for world-class, blow-yor-friends-away meals and offered their opinions on the perfect bottle of wine! What could be better in a cookbook?

The craftsmanship of the photography is a true complement to Wright's vision. Simply - just a superb volume.

This is a very thorough and user-friendly reference book covering a range of health and safety subject matter. It's an invaluable resource for anyone working in any number of disciplines relating to environmental sciences, from academics to practitioners. I have recommended it to a number of work associates, who have all found it very useful.

This interesting dictionary was compiled almost entirely from the diaries of the last speaker of Mohegan Pequot, a Mohegan woman named Fidelia Fielding, who passed away in 1908. It's quite short -- only 42 pages of vocabulary, with approximately ten words per page. The main dictionary is followed by a single page of vocabulary from the "Brothertown Mohegans" of Wisconsin, who moved to Wisconsin in the 1800s.

For anyone who doesn't know this, let me just explicitly note right here that the Mohegans are completely different from the Mohicans. To help you keep things straight, the word "Mohegan" is basically ALWAYS spelled the same way. Any time you see a spelling like Mohican, Mochican, Mahican, or...Muhhekaneew, those words refer to a totally, absolutely, completely separate tribe, which formerly lived in western Connecticut, western Massachusetts, and also in New York. That tribe is also sometimes called the Stockbridge Indians. Confusingly enough, like the Brothertown Mohegans, the Mohicans/Mahicans/Mochicans/Muhhekaneew/Stockbridge indians now live in Wisconsin, but they are still distinct from Wisconsin's Brothertown Mohegans. Are you baffled? Bemused? Befogged and bewildered? Well, welcome to the club.

I felt that the above note would be useful here, to straighten things out a little, or at least to acknowledge that a certain amount of confusion on this topic is far from being uncommon, or even inappropriate.

Back to the dictionary itself -- there is a handy little reverse dictionary in back, translating words from English to Mohegan. There is a short table of numerals, as well, going from one (nequt) to 29 (nobnenebozukukwong). Remember, this dictionary is best used in conjunction with the writings of Fidelia Fielding. That diary is available in the 43rd Annual Report of the "Bureau of American Ethnology," published for the years 1925-1926. The article is straightforwardly entitled "Mohegan Pequot Diary," and is an intriguing mixture of a.)mundane comments on the weather, and b.)fascinating religious musings. The religious musings are intriguing because they embody an amazing, syncretic amalgam of Christianity and native conceptualizations of supernatural manitou, spelled "mandu" in Mohegan... For further source materials, you may want to have a look at the periodical "American Anthropologist," volume 5, pp.193-212.

The so-called "modern" Mohegan tongue, currently being revitalized by the tribe, will have a few small differences when work is completed, simply due to a lack of hard data to work with. It's still BASED on this vocabulary, however, so the book will always have some merit in that regard.

This vocabulary is also intended, in part, as a supplement to James Hammond Trumbull's "Natick Dictionary," which is also available from this online bookstore. "Natick Dictionary" is referred to frequently here, in definitions, for Algonquian cognates.

I looked carefully through this vocabulary for words which may have been borrowed by English. This can be a fun way to spend an hour. "Caucus," for example, is often believed to have come from a New England dialect of Algonquian, although I couldn't find it here. About the only word I could find was kind of funny -- skunk. Yup, skunk. We seem to have borrowed that word from Mohegan, or at least one of its near linguistic relatives.

RECOMMENDATIONS: If you're interested in the ancient native tongues of southern New England, you may wish to look at Bragdon and Goddard's "Native Writings in Massachusett," available from this online bookstore. For the Rhode Island dialect, try "A Key into the Language of America," by Roger Williams. For a book about the MOHICAN dialect of Algonquian, which, as I said earlier, is NOT the same as Mohegan, but was spoken in more western parts of Connecticut, try "Observations on the Mochican Language," by Jonathan Edwards. For examples of the language spoken in the old New Haven area, look for "Abraham Pierson's Some Helps for the Indians," by Abraham Pierson. For an interesting book to help give some context to the old Mohegan words, look for "Native American Place Names of Connecticut," by R. A. Douglas-Lithgow.

This book is a helpful work of scholarship, and has been invaluable in helping to restore the heritage of the Mohegan people. Two thumbs up!

This book explains away all the mysteries involved in quartal jazz harmony, as well as provides great insight into using triads over dominant sevenths and voice leading. Frank gets right to the heart of the matter and presents it in a straight-forward, easy to understand manner, which is the way it should be. Great for ANY instrumentalist and a great resource for jazz arrangers.

As a consultant, I was in desperate need of a book that could serve as both tutorial and reference. I have been very pleased with this title, as it goes far beyond the POWER spooler and writing usable JCL. The coverage of LIBR, DITTO, SORT and IDCAMS on VSE/ESA has been invaluable to me. This book also goes on to describe many of the smaller DOS utilities that I wasn't aware of. Highly recommended.

Biblical quotations serve as the inspiration for 140 brilliant, ingenious, formalist poems that strike deeply into the mysteries of language and life. Beautiful, moving and profound, this book is a wonder.

I've been using Walker's for over 30 years, and it has never failed me. I recommend it to anyone who wants to estimate.

There are plenty of programs and books for estimating, but when you get right down to it there's only one Walker's -- an authoritative reference that shows you how to work up your own costs.

The estimating guides I've seen amount to little more than unit cost catalogs. With a cost data book, you wind up with someone else's estimate for someone else's job. This book is much more thorough. It's a "how-to" approach. You can do custom bids that cost out the job you are faced with, with real accuracy, and allow yourself flexibility and control.

Another great, can't-put-it-down adventure novel by Mr. Simon. Mr. Simon is every bit as good as Tom Clancy as a spinner of adventure novels. While I respect Mr. Simons religious views, I do think a more subtle approach to his characters Christian evangelisim, would widen the appeal (and market)of his writing.

I wish Frank Muir had written more books like this. I found it a delight to read and I can only describe it as a warm and humorous story to sink into. The only fault I found with The Walpole Orange was that it ended, as all good things do. It delves into the crux of how the Lords and Old Boys of a gentlemens club really want to celebrate the clubs 250th anniversary. Plans keep falling flat and the club secratary is frantic that the whole thing will be leaked to the press. Secrecy is paramount! The Belly dancers aren't what they seem and there could be more to the alternative act than what has been promised. The characters in The Walpole Orange make the whole story come alive. If you enjoy good old british comedy then be prepared for a good laugh and a good read.