This game brings back all the fun and excitement of Magic The Gathering, but in a fresh, new, exciting way. I love the illustrations and the humor this game brings to the world of Role Playing Adventure Games

With so much information to be taken on board by clinical students, not only factually but also clinically, it is reassuring to find a book which covers all essentials so well. This highly readable book is written in a very easy-to-understand way and with all the colourful diagrams actually makes reading it fun. This book covers all the core topics that will carry a clinical student through to the exams and beyond.

A delightfully humerous and quirky tale of love conquering greed. The unique appeal of this timeless tale of star-crossed lovers is the imaginative and fun illustrations combined with witty and charming text . A joy to read for children as well as adults. Another to watch out for from Gray and Dickson is 'How Many Green Ice-Creams?'.

This book has great detail of the different types of worms. The pictures/photos are clear and of an accurate size. It explains Life cycles, Treatment and Control for each different type of worm. The book is written in general plain english (for the normal person to understand) not techincal veterinary terminology, although this is also available through this book. It also covers pasture management, skin conditions, bacterial and fungal diseases, plus heaps more.This is a must for every concern horse owner/trainer.

It is a very good book for VLDB

I'm not much of a fan of John Gray so I thought I would see what this book had to offer. It's very funny (probably one of the funniest books I have ever read), the jokes and one-liners are original, and I find myself continually picking it up to find reference to something Ms. Black wrote -- that's not something I ever did with a John Gray book!

Another issue is price versus value. I was a little hesitant to spend ... on a book like this from an author whom I've never read but I did spend ... on a book from John Gray, which wasn't worth anything close to what I paid. I have no regrets spending ... for this book because it's worth it. As a former editor with a now defunct magazine, I pay particular attention to how books are written. Dr. Gray's books, sadly, are poorly edited. However, Women may be from Venus...but Men are really from Uranus is very well edited. Only a couple of mistakes and they were very minor. All in all, this is just a great value, which I highly recommend.

I bought this book as a gag gift for a friend of mine who is a Dr. Gray disciple. My friend will have to wait for me to get her another copy because I just can't put this book down!

There's so much humor in this book that it's hard to believe the author isn't a national comedienne. Every single page is full of the best one-liners I have ever seen written and compiled in a single source. It's not just roll on the floor laughter but also highly entertaining. There must be 50 illustrations throughout the book to help the reader understand the point being made in the male/female relationship.

It's an amazingly clever piece of writing. I don't know why the national media hasn't picked up on it because this is as good as anything written by nationally known humorists.

Though author Katherine Black aims her outrageously funny "Women May be from Venus, but Men are Really from Uranus" at Dr. John Gray's inane "Venus and Mars" relationship self help series, her target could in fact be the whole of the self help industry. Granted, Black is taking aim at an enormous and very slow moving target, but she possesses the rhetorical equivalent of a howitzer in the way she blasts every aspect of Gray's psycho-babble to smithereens. It is sort of like what would happen if George Carlin took on Dr. Phil in a no holds barred debate.

Black structures her book just like any self help tome you see on the shelves. The chapters are short, lest she test her (daytime television watching) audience's short attention span. There are plenty of meaningless "lists" and the print is nice an large so you can feel like you've accomplished something by reading lots of pages in a short amount of time. The book is also peppered with a generous portion of amusing illustrations by Peter J. Welling. Even if you've never read a self help book before and can't imagine ever reading one, you'll find plenty to laugh at.

Overall, a quick and humorous read that is a perfect and long overdue satire.

I've read the reviews to date and beg to differ: this "home cook" likes the book; it is not just for "foodies". This book is like "adult education"--the teacher may not be perfect but there is much to learn and to think about and to react to in "Elements of Taste." The authors teach some basic principles for balancing flavors, for adding texture and an undaunting amount of complexity, using some very interesting sample dishes to illustrate their points.

Readers who just like fine dining can use the book's approach to step up their appreciation of good restaurant food. Home cooks like me, who may be ready to improvise on "set" recipes can find a way to think about adding flavor to a dish when "something seems to be missing." If you have ever thought that you liked the basic ingredients in a dish but..."I want to do it my way," this book can extend your ability to change recipes to suit your liking. Just the idea of thinking about and looking for layers of flavors is an important step forward for many of us and this book makes a very useful beginning for that.

Cooks who don't like to think about ingredients might do better to look elsewhere since they are not really looking for inspiration or extension of technique. If you are ready to reach out a bit; just want to produce a "different" dish for your family or for a holiday or for a dining group of friends, many of these recipes will do very well. The book represents good value, giving more than its price would indicate.

I was excited to first see this book, because there is so little in the way of serious yet readable analysis of taste and flavor experiences.

Unfortunately, this turned out - against my expectations - to be long on recipes and short on analysis. Mostly, it's a book of recipes with an interesting organizational twist.

Kunz's classification of taste is just that, a classification, and little more. I don't feel that he has unearthed any new principles or theories that help chefs create new dishes, because it offers only superficial "rules" about what flavor combinations do or do not work. Beyond being a clever filing system, it offers little more than a language for discussing food, and not a very good one at that.

If you want a book of interesting recipes, this is a reasonable source. However, my kitchen is full of such books, and I don't find recipes very useful. If you want new food ideas, check out Charlie Trotter's series, which is more imaginative, has fabulous photographs, and is filled with detailed and evocative writing that is probably more valuable than what you'll find here.

Not only is it full of WONDERFUL recipes, it is also full of a lot of taste commentary and other information that will help you to design your own wonderful recipes. If you like to cook, or like to eat, this is the book for you!!!!

This is an especially great book for meat-eaters, who have over 70 amazing recipes to choose from. It's not so great for vegetarians (25 recipes), pretty poor for vegans (9 or 10 recipes), and downright bad for "no-honey" vegans (5 recipes). Still, the book is about more than just recipes: it is about taste, and the factors of taste.

Please note that the recipe count above does NOT include items in the chef's larder: a section filled with 43 recipes for things used to make other things, such as ginger confit, bourbon mustard brine, floral herbal aioli, tomato fennel broth, almond milk broth, bulby citrus butter topping, orange spice mix, cranberry glaze, and crispy rice flake breading.

All in all, an excellent book. One of the things I dig about it most is that it considers TEXTURE as a part of taste, and this is apparent in the recipes. The very first recipe in the book, PAN ROASTED SALMON WITH AROMATIC SALTED HERBS, had me convinced. The thing that really says something about this particular recipe is that both my father and I like it. My father adores salmon; I can't stand the stuff, but I like this. Seriously: try the recipe even if you don't like salmon, and especially if you do; it's easier than it looks and tastier than it sounds. Either way, I believe you will be pleasantly suprised.

Each recipe includes a section on taste, called "taste notes". These help you to hone in on the different tastes in the mix, and why they taste the way they do together.

_The Picture of Dorian Gray_, a story of morals, psychology and poetic justice, has furnished Oscar Wilde with the status of a great writer. It takes place in 19th-century England, and tells of a man in the bloom of his youth who will remain forever young.

Basil Hallward is a merely average painter until he meets Dorian Gray and becomes his friend. But Dorian, who is blessed with an angelic beauty, inspires Hallward to create his ultimate masterpiece. Awed by the perfection of this rendering, he utters the wish to be able to retain the good looks of his youth while the picture were the one to deteriorate with age. But when Dorian discovers the painting cruelly altered and realizes that his wish has been fulfilled, he ponders changing his hedonistic approach.

_Dorian Gray_'s sharp social criticism has provoked audible controversy and protest upon the book's 1890 publication, and only years later was it to rise to classic status. Reminiscent of a Greek tragedy, it is popularly interpreted as an analogy to Wilde's own tragic life. Despite this, the book is laced with the right amounts of the author's perpetual jaunty wit.

The Picture of Dorian Gray, a story of morals, psychology and poetic justice, has furnished Oscar Wilde with the status of a classical writer. It takes place in 19th-century England, and tells of a man in the bloom of his youth who will remain forever young.

Basil Hallward is a merely average painter until he meets Dorian Gray and becomes his friend. But Dorian, who is blessed with an angelic beauty, inspires Hallward to create his ultimate masterpiece. Awed by the perfection of this rendering, he utters the wish to be able to retain the good looks of his youth while the picture were the one to deteriorate with age. But when Dorian discovers the painting cruelly altered and realizes that his wish has been fulfilled, he ponders changing his hedonistic approach.

Dorian Gray's sharp social criticism has provoked audible controversy and protest upon the book's 1890 publication, and only years later was it to rise to classical status. Written in the style of a Greek tragedy, it is popularly interpreted as an analogy to Wilde's own tragic life. Despite this, the book is laced with the right amounts of the author's perpetual jaunty wit.

Oscar Wilde is a man who is obsessed by appearances. In this particular novel, he follows from the moment Dorian Gray sells his soul to the devil named beauty and youth, pleasure and enjoyment, to his death and he describes how someone who looks perfect, perfectly young, intelligent, brilliant, beautiful, moral and healthy is in fact nothing but a monster decaying in all possible immoral actions, deeds and ways just under the surface. It is a very strong criticism of victorian society that considers appearances as more important than real ethics and morality. He exposes the hypocrisy of such a society where a whole class of people are nothing but perambulating pictures of perfection hiding the mire and mud of crime and evil. We can also feel another dilemma in this book. Oscar Wilde's own dilemma who has to keep up appearances, the appearances of a well behaved, well educated and perfectly integrated man in this aristocratic society of his, and who yet lives a passion and a whole basket of desires and impulses that are absolutely rejected as crimes by victorian society. We know he will not be able to hide this deeper nature forever. But the book shows that no one can evade one's being exposed and rejected, condemned and sentenced to some punishment forever. There always comes a moment when one will be exposed and rejected. This shows how deeply Oscar Wilde must have suffered in his life. The painting is nothing but a mirror of the deeper self of Dorian Gray, but a mirror who will become one day his accuser.

Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University of Perpignan.

I found this book to be very gripping. It creates a picture of the Famine painted in words. Though a fairly small book in size; it speaks volumes, informatively and clearly of the suffering of the Irish people during this period. I have often recommended it to people asking me about information on the subject of the Famine. I give it 4-stars.

Very concise and complete. Excellent b/w line drawings - a pity the artist is not credited. Could use more photographs, esp. in color, but nonetheless an extremely useful reference work.