There's so much to learn about event sponsorship. It was interesting to see the various views of the industry, including how to expand the value of the sponsor, as well as the image of the actual event.

Library Journal's review of this guide: "Combining encyclopedic coverage of destinations with loads of practical information and atlas-type maps, the series illuminates the wonders of nature but emphasizes the peculiarity of a place's people and their folklore."

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This is a large, excellent book on the traditional Russian art of lacquered miniature painting. Over 250 color reproductions of the works of Masters are featured. This is really the definitive book on the craft. The art is famous for its tiny, but finely-detailed illustrations of folk tales or village life, painted free-hand with a homemade brush of a single squirrel or sable hair. Real gold leaf and mother-of-pearl insets add to the beauty and value of the paintings, which are created on papier-mache' shkatulki (boxes) or plaques. Many layers of lacquer finish the artwork, giving it a long-lasting, lustrous, three-dimensional quality (and incidentally, its name). Each creation can take several months, or as much as a year, to complete. Some of the rarest, most magnificent paintings are presented in these pages. The book contains a history of the craft and its Masters. Also included are short essays on each of the four schools -- the villages of Palekh, Kholui, Mstera, and Fedoskino -- which have produced generations of painters in this enduring and endearing folk art.

The capability to love is learned in stages... Attraction is the starting point toward a deeper, more spiritual connection with your partner. Self-less love for all (family, friends, neighbors, even enemies) can be learned and practiced, with the guidance of learned people and writings like this book. The view that the love we experience in our life is a gift from God opens opportunities for us to be kind and let ourselves be loved. "The Gift of Love" is a collection of short essays on quotations from the Bible concerning love, that can be read in any order. The interpretation is given from a Christian Orthodox perspective, keeping alive today the intense spirituality experienced by the early Church, during Roman persecutions and the various predatory invasions that swept Eastern and Western Europe in the Middle Ages. This book brought to my attention I Corinthians 13 :-)

"Dreams are commercials, too./But we don't know what they are pleading for." Vladimir Levchev, a renowned poet, novelist and editor in his native Bulgaria, proves his mastery of his adopted language in "Heavenly Balkans," an uncommonly astute and striking chapbook of poems. As an Eastern European poet, Levchev had to learn much more quickly about the reality of history and politics than American poets do, and he demonstrates this in such poems as "The Balkan Dance": "We are dancing towards a new millennium/and all we can see in our future/is our past." But he also writes perceptively of America in such poems as "Washington, D.C.," in which he observes that "Freedom has countless swaying faces," and in "No Man is an Island," observing that "We all live in Manhattan" in the aftermath of 9/11. This is a small book--only 40 pages--but the poetry in it is big.

This is perhaps the most in-depth and detailed biography of Horowitz. From this book you can learn much about Horowitz's psychological and emotional worlds (and even his homosexuality), as well as details of his career. The only drawback is that this book is completed before Horowitz's death, so there are a few years of his life that this book doesn't cover. If you plan to get only one biography of Horowitz, I'll recommend the one by Harold C. Schonberg.

In the late sixties the author discovered that hydrogen under pressure mobilizes otherwise rigid crystalline, rock-forming elements. This book explores the profound geological consequences of the phenomenon, essentially creating entirely new geological theory. Any serious student of the earth must take into account Vladimir Larin's challenges to orthodoxy.

A long-expected translation of one of the most prominent stydies of Chekhov, written with lucidity and depth akin to Chekhov's own style.

This book should be read by anyone who gives chess advice. All chess parents would gain tremendous chess insight into what is necessary for sound success in chess learning.