But Marion Chesney pulls a run-away heiress, to would be kidnap victim, into the funniest, even suspensful story of a lifetime. She describes the Victorian aristocracy to a "T". How the heiress' new friends, juggle financial embarrassment and star-crossed romance to rescue her from her tender predicament? Get a copy of this book; you won't be sorry.

Everything Chesney writes is a lot of fun, but the Poor Relations series is probably her best.

Don't miss out on books she wrote under the pseudonym Jennie Tremaine.

My son has always loved to cook and make his own concoctions (pickles, yoghurt and raw red peppers for a snack!). This is a great book to use with kids. Other suggestions are CLUELESS IN THE KITCHEN, great for teens. And for a fun look at Fannnie Farmer, who was so influential in American cooking, try FANNIE IN THE KITCHEN, a charming picture book about a young girl who learns to cook with Fannie Farmer. Delicious illustrations!

As I looked through many children's cookbooks, this is the only one that gives you a curriculum on where to start. Giving you basic recipes Children will need for their entire life. Having 4 Children of ages between 8-10, we found the recipes very clear, simple to make, and to the taste buds of young people. After one week of classes, the children had developed good habits and had a good understanding of basic cookery.

If you have read any other Jeanette Winter books, you know the quality and content are excellent. This book is no different. Cowboy Charlie is very special! It is a true Cowboy Story...the story of Charles Marion Russell, the great painter and sculptor, who was a cowboy, too! The sweet story shares how Charlie's parents wisely supported their son's dreams of the West and his artistic talent. The book's illustrations are a rich and colorful quilt that brings warmth to the story. Your budding artist should read this. Your little cowpoke will be encouraged to embrace his cowboy dreams in a new way. This is the stuff of great children's books. Get it.

This is a delightful childrens book that should be in every school library. The simple story gives the very essence of the kind spirit of Charles M. Russell the Cowboy Artist,who loved children. Follow your Dreams,and use your talents is the theme to this uplifting gem of a book. The illustrations are brilliant and heartwarming...I bought an extra copy just so I could frame the images and hang them up to enjoy....they make me smile!

This is a must-have book for the needleworkers' bookshelf. Not only does the author explain hardanger in simple, illustrated steps, she also provides heirloom-style projects on which to practice new skills. If you are a competent cross-stitcher and are ready to try something a little more challenging, I highly recommend Marion's book as an introduction to many hours of contented stitching.

I just got my book today in the mail and I must say that I am very pleased with it. It's got some wonderful designs and lots of them too! Very easy to read charts and for first time people doing Hardanger, the author explains the different stiches very well. I definitely recommend this book for your Hardanger collection.

Oh, how I wish I could own this wonderful book, which is a favorite to peruse through at the library. The word "genius" is over-used, but it really applies to Dorfsman. This book has ample examples of this man's brilliance. When you think of CBS, chances are, you're thinking of the images of Dorfsman. The Eye. The Font. Everything anyone who watched CBS television or CBS radio from the 1950s to the 1970s knows what I'm talking about. Every aspect of that network's "look" was due to Dorfsman.

In an age when advertising seems more interested in impressing account executives than informing its audience, the classic work of Dorfsman provides an invaluable education. In fact, I'd bet if a radio or TV ad exec spent an hour looking at this book, seeking inspiration, he or she would probably be able to turn out much more effective ad campaigns than he or she are today. His copy ranged from the minimalist (A list of the numbers 1-15, with two crossed out, copy saying "These aren't ours," demonstrating how CBS dominated the daytime Nielsens) to the very convincing copy he generated to convince New Yorkers that they NEED to listen to WCBS with its new all-news format.
History demonstrates how effective this material was in the 1960s.

Invaluable! I'll take Dorfsman over Degars any day.

Having had the pleasure of working with Lou, I have nothing but great things to say about this book. I cherish my copy. I am very dissapointed to learn that this book is no longer in print. This book has so much to offer anyone in advertising, communication, and broadcast media.

The London marriage mart held no interest for Mira, as she had her heart set on a childhood dream. Once her diabolical sister learns of the dream, she sets out to win the hand of Lord Charles, object of Mira's dreams. Mira had many jealous temper tantrums (including pushing her sister into a fountain) and nearly ruined her own respectibility. She didn't care until the Marquess of Grantley came to the rescue... then he wished he hadn't. This book was truly a great hoot. Wish there'd been a sequel.

Marion Chesney is one of the best romantic writer in the regency romance series. A wonderful story teller and Marion, keep up the good job. I hope you can continue to write more stories in the regency romance novels.

See the review below mine for an outline of the story. I've read Endless Universe about four times over the last 20 years. If you like good ole Sci-Fi, you'll like this book.

This excellent short story collection is the revised and expanded edition of _Endless Voyage_. The major difference between these two collections of short stories about the crew of the Explorer ship Gypsy Moth is that the latter includes "A Time To Mourn", which among other things explains how Gilmarina came to be named for Gildoran's childhood friend, lost in "Planets Are For Saying Goodbye".

Galactic civilization travels by Transmitter, a technology that allows people to step into a booth and travel anywhere to any receiver within a few light-years. Nobody needs to actually travel through the intervening distance anymore, except the Explorers: the small fleet of ships who discover new worlds, set up the first Transmitter hookups, and open them for colonization. They have their own culture, and even differ subtly between ships; this is the story of the Gypsy Moth, particularly Gildoran, who in ship-years is quite young, but with relativistic effects is far older in planet time.

Explorers are set apart, not only because of long years spent in isolation, and seeing sights and running risks that no one else ever faces, but because of the adaptations they need for the life they lead. Explorers must undergo DNA surgery as infants to survive drive effects - and the dangerous surgery can only be successfully performed in the drive field, so all Explorers are raised in the life. Raised, but not born; radiation effects leave them all sterile, with paper-white skin, while low-g gives them great height. They're only a legend on many worlds, but a legend people hate: they need to take unwanted babies to keep going.

The stories present in this edition are:

"Planets Are For Saying Goodbye" - The Gypsy Moth is preparing for departure, after spending 2 years opening up this new colony world, where Gildoran has spent his youth. Planning in terms of 5-15 year voyages, Gildoran is dispatched with his friend Ramie to buy 6 new babies from a Hatchery that's willing to deal with Explorers, even though his friend Gilmarin was lost on the same assignment. And in transit through Lasselli's World, 'Doran learns what it is not only to lose his oldest friend, but makes and loses another friend, who not only saves him from lynching, but gets him back to the Moth before liftoff.

"A Time To Mourn" - Nearly a year out, four of the six infants are still alive and beginning to talk; Explorers don't name the kids until about this time, when they're sure the children will survive the DNA surgery's aftermath. 'Doran has spent this year on Nursery duty, helping ensure that the kids will pick up human language and social skills, and not just become Poohbears in human bodies (the aliens who serve on every Explorer ship, raising the kids). He's both delighted that Rotation Day has arrived to liberate him from toddler-land, although secretly he'll miss seeing the brightest of the little 1-year-olds every day, a really cute young imp of a girl who'll need a name soon.

The Rotation assigns him to learn the skills of a Transmitter technician, and when Gypsy Moth discovers its next planet - a desert showing traces of a lost civilization - he's sent with the crew performing the first survey and Transmitter tie-in. What they find gives the world its new name, Ozymandias, and gives 'Doran the courage to suggest the only proper name for his favourite young imp.

"Hellworld" - Gildoran gets the official credit (mainly the right to name it) for discovering the lovely world, as the first member of the Bridge crew to spot it, and Gypsy Moth really needs the finder's fee for a good world, since they've been discovering a lot of bad real estate lately. They'd have settled for anything with iron-based biochemistry and heavy metals, but this one's pretty enough to be a resort. Unfortunately, the flowers of this paradise conceal deadly secrets, threatening even the almost-immortal Poohbears of the crew.

"Cold Death" - Even an uninhabitable world like Tempest can be good for something, if you're low on minerals when you happen to find it. Unfortunately, it's not quite as lifeless as it seems; the winds of Tempest carry a deadly virus that defeats all efforts to kill it, which drains the body heat out of its victims. If Gilban and the medics can't find a way to beat it, Gypsy Moth will become a floating tomb.

"A World With Your Name On It" - Gypsy Moth's crew has to swallow their pride and head for the nearest known world; they've had too many deaths and disasters, and haven't got the resources to properly open a good world even if they finally found one. But even if Lazlo welcomes them, how can they get enough manpower to return to space?

I recommend getting _Endless Universe_ over the shorter version if possible (they're both good, but this one has 1 more story than _Endless Voyage_, so it's more of a good thing.)

I've dined at the restaurant many times, and it is consistently good. The cookbook is just as good as the restaurant - especially the Penne Gratin (very rich, very decadent and VERY delicious!)

I would recommend this book to anyone who enjoys cooking.

You can actually grill a delicious pizza while friends hang out around the barbecue drinking red wine! The soups are delicious as well as the salads, meat entrees and their famous seasoning recipes! A must have for family meals as well as friendly get togethers!

This book will take you through ancient prophecies of the days in which we live. Without resorting to Nostradamus and other lightweight seers, Marion Kremers gives a convincing overview of why you should read and study the Bible for yourself.
Included are many historical features such as timelines of recent Middle Eastern political history.
The reader will gain a lot of insight into why the Old Testament prophetical writings especially are essential for a thorough understanding of the hurting world without the Lord God of the Jews, post 9/11, in which we live today.

The best book that I, and many others have read. An excellent study of the Bible, ancient prophacies thru current affairs! Once you read the book you'll want to keep it around to help understand the precise timing of our creator.

Let me admit first off that Marion's "God Without Being" is a difficult read; I admit this despite the fact that, when I first read it, my brain was well steeped in the work of Derrida, Heidegger, Levinas, and many others into and out of whose discourses Marion constructs his own argument. There are large chunks of the essay that still puzzle me, but the clarity of the ultimate movements will not be lost on the attentive reader. Theology is wasting its time, Marion claims, when it appears primarily as apologist for an existing God, for the most important thing about God is not first that God lives, but that God gives.

Beginning with an interrogation of what he will later term "the ontological impediment" (this very pre-occupation with systematizing or explaining God's being or God-as-Being), Marion contests that this very focus on ex-planation (with its aggressively outbound prefix) prevents one from being capable of acting as receiver (with all its quietly centripetal connotations) and thus betrays one of the most basic theological aims: speaking of "the gift that Christ makes of his body," Marion reminds us that "a gift, and this one above all, does not require first that one explain it, but indeed that one receive it" (162).

The book's back cover refers to this move as one that resituates God in the realm of agape, or Christian charity, rather than in the realm of Being. Marion does indeed speak of agape, but I think that the tidy and perhaps overly theoretical ring of the word would give way, if he had his preference, to the plain, everyday notion of "giving" to which he turns at the most powerful moments of "God Without Being." Because for Marion the gift of Christ is already a very physical fact ("in a word," he says, "the Resurrection remains historically verifiable" [193]), the messy physicality of giving seems to me truer to his reinscription of God than does the theological purity of agape.

The deeply Catholic background of Marion's work, while not in the least a detractor, may make the book slightly less accessible for those not familiar with many tenets of or ongoing debates within the Catholic theological tradition; this was certainly a difficulty for me, but not an insoluble one. And the framing of the essay as a working out of one's own faith, from the "Envoi" to "The Last Rigor," allows the impact of Marion's address to operate perfectly coherently on a logical level, but even more so on an individually emotional level.

Readers interested in theology and postmodern recontextuatlizations of it--and even, perhaps, in the reconciliation of these two terms--will find in Marion's "God Without Being" a very satisfying if not moving experience.

Marion rides the cutting edge of both theology and philosophy. He is a postmodern in the most brilliant sense of the word and already seems to be leaving such philosophers as Derrida and Foucault behind. Much like Kant and Heidegger, Marion is creating his own system and lingo- philosophers and theologians alike need to become familiar with his thought. This is a fantastic book and will undoubtedly take its place in the western cannon of philosophical thought.