We love to entertain, and the biggest issue is having too much to do on the big day.The ideal meal, in our minds, starts with a couple of fabulous appetizers (along with a nice glass of wine). The "hitch", however, is that a couple of knockout appetizers often takes a half day's time. This little gem of a book is fully meets our needs: the Green Goddess Dip & Crudites, Honey-Baked Brie Wrapped in Phyllo, Cocktail Crab Cakes, and Warm-Spiced Pecans with Rum Glaze are all easy, make-ahead dishes and are "lick the plate" good.

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I found this book to be very informative and inspiring. JohnElway is one of the greatest quarterbacks of all time. This book onlydoes him justice. I fell like i know him in a better sense after reading this book. END

This is a wonderful book. Clague et al cover all the bases on insitutions that foster economic growth.

This book is written well; it is laid out well; its premises and conclusions make good economic sense. Additionally, footnotes and references are easy to find, works discussed are cited in the text, and much of the information in the book offers tools for spinoff independent research by students.

This is a book that students will greatly enjoy reading and instructors will enjoy working with. For the non-student, a basic "economic literacy" is all that is needed to benefit from Clague et al's wonderful book.

John Chris Jones' "the internet and everyone" is a remarkable new book which gives some much needed perspective to the transformation that has taken place in our culture due to electronic media. Beyond this, it addresses the implications of these changes for society as a whole, suggesting ways through which we might not just be blown by the winds of change, but instead begin to make the weather ourselves. As such Jones' book should become required reading for all those with an interest in taking advantage of all that digitization has to offer, while avoiding the dehumanizing effect that these technologies can sometimes have.

Like the culture it describes, this beautifully designed book is occasionally chaotic and confusing, but Jones provides "reading paths" so that people of different interests can "hop" through the book, finding those aspects that are most relevant to them. In this way Jones mirrors the structure of the internet, presenting multiple narratives to be stitched together by different readers.

In terms of content, Jones has been exploring the social implications of technological development for almost half a century. "the internet and everyone" presents these findings and shows very clearly how, though radically new in many ways, digital technology is in fact an extension of innovations that preceded it. Jones provides what is so rarely found: a presentation of the social implications of technology and, most importantly, specific suggestions for how to adapt these technologies more fully to suit people (rather than our adapting to them). By taking this broader view of technological development, presented from the point of view of one who has very much been part of its development, Jones gives an unparalleled insight into not just the future course of technology but also of our interaction with it .

"the internet and everyone" presents essays, notes, plays, correspondence -- seemingly a hodgepodge. This idiosyncratic presentation, however, is most suitable for the central message that Jones is presenting -- that for technology to be humane it must be decentral, partial, fragmentary. Anything else risks a tyranny, one which begins in the way we shape our technology and which will eventually take root in society, often limiting our options without our even clearly knowing. We can take from Jones' book to begin with what is most of interest to us. With patience and curiosity we can dip back into it from time to time until even the most odd seeming parts make sense.

Jones' book provides what the internet does not -- perspective. Though seemingly weekly the "next big trend" in the internet is reported, the real implications of this development of a "digital nervous system" for society are much broader. For those who would like to get a sense of what is possible, and of how it might be used to fashion a more humane society, Jones' "the internet and everyone" is a seminal work.

I read Irish Nocturnes with a great deal of pleasure. Everyone of the 18 essays brought me closer to what one might refer to as the unexpected beauty in our lives. One will definitely fall in love with life. Everyday experiences are told with a touch of wonder to them. As the essays grow deeper in lyricism and poetry, so does the universal appeal of the sentiments they invoke, including longing, nostalgia, gentleness,childlike optimism,adult realism, and stability. The author, Chris Arthur, is a master of sharing personal experiences in a way that they can become one's own. Although I have not been to Ireland, I find myself sharing the author's pathos for Ireland's beauty and strength. I recommend this collection of essays to everyone interested in that which is both beautiful and thoughtful.

John Muir: My Life With Nature is one of the best introductory biographies into the life of this great and influential American naturalist available to young readers today. Told in his own words, the text was compiled and aptly presented by naturalist Joseph Cornell who does full and complete justice in presenting the reader with an accurate and revealing presentation of John Muir's personality, life, thought, and accomplishment. Although designed specifically for young readers, John Muir: My Life With Nature will also be appreciated by adults with an interest in this unique and impressive man and his contributions to public awareness of the need for conservation and wildlife preservation.

John W. McCoy (1910-1989) belonged to the realist school of American art. Enhanced with an informative commentary by Andrew Wyeth accompanying 75 reproductions in full color, John W. Mccoy: American Painter showcases a man's passion for painting as revealed in the words of his daughter by one who knew him best, his daughter, Anna B. McCoy. John W. Mccoy: American Painter will prove to be a popular and much appreciated addition to any personal, professional, academic, or community library American artists and art history collection.

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Christopher Isherwood has been appreciated for years as one of America's finest writers. Recent publications of biographies, essays of remembrances, and historically important data in the form of his diaries have established his place in history. That he had a longterm relationship with artist Don Bachardy is a well known fact and in truth much of the notoriety currently is due to Bachardy's continued devotion. Nowhere is there a more profound paeon to love than in this book of ink drawings. As Christopher Isherwood lay ill and dying his lover stayed by his side, savoring all the moments remaining in their temporal relationship. How best to while away his attentiveness than to draw Isherwood. These profoundly touching renderings show Isherwood's decline and finally his death, even drawings of his corpse as Bachardy waited for the body to be removed from their Santa Monica home. This is not a morbid book. This is a book that radiates love and chronicles time passing and life ending. It is one of the most tender elegies we have in art.

When the author of this book was climbing Denali he and his party were stuck in an inevitable long storm and "John Christopher" kept the climbing party from going stir-crazy by reciting the wonderful verse from this book.

In the vein of Robert Service, these poems in verse capture the beauty, the agony, the good times and bad of climbing big walls and sitting out big storms.

"John" should know because he climbed 4 of the seven summits before his untimely death in 1997.

If you like mountains, mountain climbing and wonderfully descriptive verse,get this book. Put it in your back pack. Because, as you know, you never know when you may be sitting there for days on end, staring at the ripstop and wishing you had something heroic to read. Submitted by Bill Hoke for Dennis Burke